Tom Duncan (1969 October 8, 2014) was a Liberian who became the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States on September 30, 2014. Duncan, who had been visiting family in Dallas, was treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.[1][2] By October 4, Duncan's condition had deteriorated from "serious but stable" to "critical".[3] On October 8, Duncan died of Ebola.[4] Two health care workers became infected with Ebola virus, 26-year-old nurse Nina Pham and 29-year-old nurse Amber Vinson, both of whom had taken care of him at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Both have been cured. On November 10, 2014, Duncan's family reached a resolution with the Dallas hospital that treated him before he succumbed to the virus.
