{"id":1362,"date":"2014-10-08T12:21:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T16:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2014-10-08T12:27:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T16:27:29","slug":"dallas-ebola-patient-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/10\/dallas-ebola-patient-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Ebola Patient Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1363\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/duncan.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1363\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/duncan-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Eric Duncan (Photo: Facebook)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/duncan-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/duncan-290x195.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Eric Duncan (Photo: Facebook)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The patient at a Texas hospital battling the Ebola virus has died, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Eric Duncan, believed to be 42, died at 7:51 a.m. Wednesday, a day after he was given the experimental drug brincidofovir at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where he had been admitted since Sept. 28.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"entry-content\">\u201cMr. Duncan succumbed to an insidious disease,\u201d hospital spokesman Wendell Watson said.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Duncan carried the Ebola virus to the United States with him from his native Liberia, officials have said. In Texas, h<span class=\"entry-content\">ealth officials have identified 10 people, including seven health workers, who had direct contact with Duncan while he was contagious, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2014\/10\/08\/dallas-ebola-patient-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Associated Press reported<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"entry-content\">They have our sincere condolences, and we are keeping them in our thought<\/span>s,\u201d <span class=\"entry-content\">Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, said in statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Once at the morgue, Duncan\u2019s body will be placed in an airtight, secure casket and immediately buried or cremated, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/dfw.cbslocal.com\/2014\/10\/08\/ebola-patients-remains-still-infectious\/\" target=\"_blank\">report from CBS Dallas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CDC recommends that the body be placed in two leak-proof zippered plastic bags before being moved to the morgue,\u201d the report said. The body should not be embalmed, according to the same report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/10\/dallas-ebola-patient-is-dead\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The patient at a Texas hospital battling the Ebola virus has died, reports said. Thomas Eric Duncan, believed to be 42, died at 7:51 a.m. Wednesday, a day after he was given the experimental drug brincidofovir at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where he had been admitted since Sept. 28. \u201cMr. Duncan succumbed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/duncan.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-lY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}