First US Ebola Patient, Duncan is DeadThe first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States has died in a Dallas hospital. The 42, was pronounced dead at 7:51 a.m. at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where he was admitted Sept. 28 and had been kept in isolation, according to spokesman Wendell Watson. Health officials have identified 10 people, including seven health workers, who had direct contact with Duncan while he was contagious. The four people living in the northeast Dallas apartment where Duncan stayed have been isolated in a private residence. Officials have said everyone who potentially had contact with Duncan is being monitored for 21 days, the normal incubation period for the disease.