Thomas Eric Duncan has been identified by his sister, Mai Wureh, identified as the infected man from Liberia who has been diagnosed with Ebola. Duncan, who arrived in the U.S. on Sept. 20, is in isolation at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas.
He faces prosecution for alleging lying on an airport questionnaire about not having any contact with an infected person. Duncan helped a 19-year-old pregnant woman into a taxi who was convulsing and later died of the virus.
Texas health officials believe Duncan has come into direct contact with 80 to 100 people, including three members of the paramedics crew that took him to the hospital, plus a handful of schoolchildren. None of them are showing symptoms.
Ebola is believed to have sickened more than 7,100 people in West Africa and killed more than 3,300, according to the World Health Organization. Liberia is one of the three countries hit hardest in the epidemic, along with Sierra Leone and Guinea.
