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FORT WORTH, Texas — The family of the first Ebola victim to die in the United States says the hospital that cared for him has refused for weeks to release lab results showing the effects of an experimental drug treatment, fanning their suspicions that the facility mishandled the case. They believe that information is being withheld, along with additional medical records, by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where Thomas Eric Duncan died Oct. 8....

When Thomas Duncan flew to the U.S. from Liberia in September, it was to marry his longtime girlfriend and fiancée, 54-year-old Louise Troh. Now, 12 days after Duncan died from Ebola at a hospital in Dallas, Troh will be released from quarantine, and she plans to write a book about her experience, according to CNN. “I do have a story to tell, and I look forward to telling it in my own way at the right time,” Troh, who is a nurse’s assistant at a nursing home, said in a statement on Sunday. She added that even though the quarantine...

The first group of people exposed to Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die from Ebola in the United States, will no longer be considered at risk for the Ebola virus at 12 a.m. Monday. After three weeks of isolation or self-monitoring, 47 people -- including Duncan's fiancee Louise Troh, her 13-year-old son and two nephews --- will be cleared and allowed to go on with their lives.

On Tuesday, 16 days after the late Thomas Eric Duncan became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, President Barack Obama announced, "We are surging resources into Dallas to examine what exactly has happened that ended up infecting the nurse there." "Obviously are thoughts and prayers are with her," he added.

District Judge Bob Downing issued the injunction Monday afternoon after state Attorney General Buddy Caldwell requested a temporary order to keep the incinerated items out of Louisiana. In a statement late Sunday, Caldwell cited reports that “six truckloads” of items from the Texas apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan was staying were set to be dumped at a Louisiana landfill after being burned at a Veolia Environmental Services plant in Port Arthur, Texas. Duncan fell ill with Ebola in Texas and died Wednesday.

Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, is pictured arriving at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Holds a relative wearing traditional African dress while on the phone Is notifying his family members that he will be at their Dallas home shortly Was able to make the journey after allegedly lying on health forms in Liberia He is in a critical condition in hospital and is being held in isolation

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins alerted the news media Sunday morning that one of the 46 people believed to have contact with to Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, appears to be missing. “We are working to find a low-risk individual who has been identified by our local team as a contact. We have our Dallas County Sheriff’s Department and Dallas Police Department teams on the ground,” Jenkins said in a statement released by his office at 10:30 a.m. The person was not identified. “We are working to locate the individual and get him to a comfortable, compassionate place where we...

Image: Two women glance at journalists gathered on a street next to an apartment complex where an Ebola infected man had stayed in Dallas, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Dallas city officials asked the family who resides at the apartment to remain in their home. DALLAS – A hazardous-materials crew on Friday decontaminated the Texas apartment where an Ebola patient stayed, while public-health officials cut by half the number of people being monitored for any symptoms of the deadly disease. The decontamination team was to collect bed sheets, towels and a mattress used by the infected man before he was hospitalized,...

The first man diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. got much sicker shortly after a Dallas hospital diagnosed him with a fever and sent him home, says a woman who calls the man her stepfather and took his temperature. ... Two days later, Jallah told the Journal in a story published Friday, her mother called her again. "She said, 'Your step-daddy is not feeling OK,'" she said. "He's been going to the bathroom all night. You should come over and fetch him some breakfast.'" The woman said Duncan had been up all night with diarrhea. She took his temperature and...

Relatives of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan who were put under observation by CDC after they visited him on the day he was taken to hospital are still waiting for an answer about what they should do 24 hours after they begged them for help. Aaron Yah, 43, and wife Youngor Jallah, 35, yesterday told of their ordeal in isolation and revealed that they had not received direct orders to stay indoors. Today MailOnline returned to the family's small apartment to find a family without answers, without power following violent electrical storms that brought down lines and running low on...

Four relatives of the Texas Ebola patient who have been confined to their Dallas apartment moved to a home in a gated community the use of which was given to them by an anonymous donor, according to a Dallas city official. The city had a difficult time finding a home for the family of Thomas Eric Duncan because no one wanted to take them in, according to Sana Syed, a spokesperson for the city of Dallas. Cleanup crews discovered today that Duncan slept on every mattress in the apartment, said Syed. They previously thought he only slept on one. All...

A woman who claims to be the “stepdaughter” of Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Duncan told CNN’s John Berman on Friday that she had close contact with her stepfather and ended up calling 911 when he became feverish and sweaty. However, she also revealed a number of other “shocking” details about her interactions so far with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials. Firstly, Youngor Jallah claimed she found out that Duncan was diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus on the news. She told Berman that no official with the CDC or other agency called to inform her. “I saw it...

Four relatives of the Texas Ebola patient who have been confined to their Dallas apartment are being moved to an undisclosed location, according to a Dallas city official. The four people are going to be moved later today, according to Sana Syed, a spokesperson for the city of Dallas. The individuals, who include three men and a woman named Louise Troh, will be moved once the Fire Marshall secures and contains the car that Duncan was in before being taken to the emergency room. Troh traveled with Duncan from Liberia and has been referred to as Duncan's wife by other...

The sweat-stained sheets of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, still on her bed, a woman quarantined in a Dallas apartment said Thursday that she desperately wants her family’s nightmare to end. “We can’t wait to be over with everything,” the woman, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Louise, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “We can’t wait.” While Duncan is in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, his partner and three others have been stuck in a Dallas apartment since his diagnosis this week. Louise told CNN that authorities had...

(CNN) — The partner of Ebola patient Thomas Duncan is quarantined in her Dallas apartment where Duncan became sick with the virus after his trip to Liberia, the woman told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. The woman, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Louise, is quarantined with one of her children under 13 and two nephews in their 20s because they were in apartment when Duncan became ill, Cooper said. Duncan, a 42-year-old Liberian citizen, is now hospitalized in Dallas. But Louise remains in her apartment, and she’s worried, not knowing what to do and waiting on federal...

DALLAS — The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States has local ties to the Charlotte region. Thomas Eric Duncan went to a Dallas emergency room late Thursday night and explained that he was visiting the U.S. from Liberia. He was sent home with antibiotics, according to his sister, Mai Wureh. He returned two days later, after his condition worsened, and was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Duncan has family that lives in Kannapolis and they told NBC News they alerted the CDC of Duncan's condition. There is no threat locally, according to officials. "I called CDC to...

The circle of people who have come into contact with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan is rapidly expanding, jumping from 18 to 80 early today and then leaping to 100, according to Texas health officials.

DALLAS -- Health officials say the family of a Liberian man diagnosed with Ebola while visiting them in Dallas left their home, and that's why a "control order" was put in place to keep them inside. Family members of Thomas Eric Duncan were ordered Wednesday night to stay home or face criminal charges. Four to five people, who are not showing symptoms of the deadly disease at this time, were put under the quarantine by Texas health officials. The group is not allowed to leave their home in Dallas and cannot visit with anyone outside the home, the State Health...