US’s first ebola victim struggling to survive as second case confirmed

The first person to develop ebola in the US was struggling to survive at a Dallas hospital yesterday after his condition worsened to critical, the director of the US Centres for Disease Control said.

Thomas Eric Duncan became ill after arriving in Dallas from Liberia two weeks ago — heightening concerns that the worst ebola epidemic on record could spread from West Africa, where it began in March and has killed more than 3,400 people.

“The man in Dallas, who is fighting for his life, is the only patient to develop ebola in the US,” CDC director Dr Thomas Frieden said on CNN’.