Thomas Duncan has been isolated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital

Thomas Duncan has been isolated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital since Sunday and was originally listed in serious but stable condition. The downgrade comes a day after his family said he is ‘too sick to speak.’ The 42-year-old Liberian national is the first — and so far only — person to test positive for Ebola on U.S. soil.

BY Meg Wagner

LM Otero/AP Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital's Ebola patient is now in critical condition, staff said Saturday.

He’s getting sicker.
Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Duncan is now in critical condition, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said Saturday. He was previously listed in serious but stable condition.
His worsened condition comes after his family said he had become “too sick to speak,” Friday. They no longer have any communication with the 42-year-old, who has been in isolation since Sunday.
Earlier this week, Duncan became the first — and so far only — person to test positive for Ebola on U.S. soil. He contracted the virus during a trip to Liberia, but traveled to Texas before he was diagnosed.

Wilmot Chayee/AP Thomas Duncan, right, was isolated in the hospital on Sunday. He was originally listed in serious but stable condition.

 

Duncan originally went to the hospital on Sept. 25, but was sent home with antibiotics and pain pills.
Three days later, he went back to the Dallas hospital in an ambulance. Doctors finally isolated him and began investigating anyone who was in contact with Duncan.
A search for the Dallas homeless man who rode in the same ambulance right after Duncan finally turned up Michael Lively, 52, who was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital’s psychiatric ward by police on Sunday afternoon, WFAA reported.

Wilfred Smallwood, Duncan's brother, speaks about the 42-year-old while holding a photo of him.

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