Family Of Dallas Man With Ebola Quarantined As His Condition Worsens

By Sam Sanders

Published October 4, 2014 at 5:05 PM EDT

Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who was diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas, Texas, remains hospitalized in critical condition. The relatives he was living with in Dallas are quarantined and have been moved out of the apartment they shared with the patient.

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