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Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.

Thomas Eric Duncan

First Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States

Thomas Eric Duncan was a Liberian citizen who became the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States on September 30, 2014.
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Zaire ebolavirus

Species of virus affecting humans and animals

Orthoebolavirus zairense or Zaire ebolavirus, more commonly known as Ebola virus, is one of six known species within the genus Ebolavirus. Four of the six known ebolaviruses, including EBOV, cause a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other mammals, known as…
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