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U.S. Journalist With Ebola Being Flown To Nebraska Hospital

Hazardous material cleaners disinfectant their personal protective equipment after working in the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas, stayed last week.
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Hazardous material cleaners disinfectant their personal protective equipment after working in the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas, stayed last week.

The condition of a man infected with the Ebola virus who is undergoing treatment in a Dallas hospital is "fighting for his life" doctors say as another patient with the disease is being flown to Nebraska to receive care.

Thomas Eric Duncan, in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, became ill after arriving from the West African country of Liberia two weeks ago.

The head of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Dr. Thomas Frieden, told CNN on Sunday that Duncan was "fighting for his life" but said he was not receiving any experimental treatments.

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Reuters says:

"Frieden, who is slated to brief President Barack Obama on Monday, said doses of the experimental medicine ZMapp were "all gone" and that the drug, produced by San Diego-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical, is "not going to be available anytime soon." "A second experimental drug, made by Canada's Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp, 'can be quite difficult for patients to take,' he said, adding that the doctor and the patient's family would decide whether to use the drug."

Meanwhile, freelance photographer Ashoka Mukpo, 33, who also contracted Ebola in Liberia is being moved to Nebraska Medical Center, where he will be treated inside a special isolation unit.

NBCNews reports that Mukpo departed Liberia on a specially equipped airplane and that the aircraft would make a brief refueling stop in Bangor, Maine, before arriving in Omaha.

Although others, like Mukpo, have arrived in the U.S. for treatment after testing positive for Ebola, Duncan is the only patient to be diagnosed on U.S. soil.

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