(Courthouse News) The man with the first domestic case of Ebola died this morning, the day after the Rev. Jesse Jackson and a Dallas County commissioner said the man may have been turned away by a Dallas hospital because he is black and lacks insurance.
Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas announced by email this morning that Thomas Eric Duncan died at 7:51 a.m.
Duncan, 42, had been in isolation in the hospital for 10 days.
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Jackson led a prayer vigil Tuesday outside of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas with the family of Thomas Duncan, who arrived in Dallas from West Africa on Sept. 20 to get married.