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The condition of a man infected with the Ebola virus who is undergoing treatment in Dallas is "fighting for his life," doctors say, as another patient with the disease has arrived in Nebraska to receive care.

Thomas Eric Duncan, in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, became ill after arriving from the West African country of Liberia two weeks ago.

The head of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Dr. Thomas Frieden, told CNN on Sunday that Duncan was "fighting for his life" but said he was not receiving any experimental treatments.


NPR's Rob Stein reports, however, that Duncan is receiving a different experimental drug, brincidofovir. The Associated Press describes it as 

an oral medication being tested by a North Carolina company

 for use against several other types of viruses.
Meanwhile, 

, who also contracted Ebola in Liberia, is being moved to The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where he will be treated inside a special isolation unit.


 Mukpo, 33, departed Liberia on a specially equipped airplane and that the aircraft would make a brief refueling stop in Bangor, Maine, before landing in Omaha.


Although others, like Mukpo, have arrived in the U.S. for treatment after testing positive for Ebola, Duncan is the only patient to be diagnosed on U.S. soil.


Meanwhile, the Pentagon says that 1,600 soldiers from the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division are being deployed to Liberia beginning next week.  Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

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While one man with the virus is "fighting for his life" in a Dallas hospital, another patient with the disease heads to the heartland for care.

US journalist with Ebola being flown to Nebraska hospital

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