US Ebola Patient, Thomas Duncan Is Dead

Thomas Duncan, a Liberian who brought Ebola Into the US Is Dead. He caught the virus in his native Liberia, was being kept in isolation in a Dallas hospital and receiving experimental drug called brincidofovir died in an isolation ward of a Dallas hospital, 11 days after being admitted on Sept. 28.

Duncan's death has revealed some bottlenecks in America healthcare system,first he had visited an hospital in the US 2 days before he was finally admitted for treatment and even when he told the nurse he recently arrived from West Africa, he was sent home with antibiotics.
Secondly, Ebola experts also asked why Duncan received the experimental drug  'brincidofovir', made by Chimerix Inc., which has not been tested on humans or animals, rather than Tekmira Pharmaceuticals drug TKM-Ebola, which has been tested on humans. TKM-Ebola was given to another U.S. patient, Dr. Rick Sancra, who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia and was cured.

"We know Dr. Sacra was pretty damn sick when he began treatment," said virologist Thomas Geisbert of the University of Texas Medical Branch, who has done pioneering work on Ebola treatments. It "potentially saved him."

"It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 am," a spokesman said in a statement.
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