First U.S. Ebola Patient Dies In Dallas Hospital
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Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, had been in isolation at a hospital in Dallas since Sept. 28 after traveling to the city from West Africa. He had begun receiving an experimental antiviral drug brincidofovir, recently emergency-approved by the FDA, over the weekend.
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Duncan had "fought courageously in this battle," said the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where he was treated.
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