Texas
hospital officials have said that the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola
within the US has died,
Reports
says, Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, who caught the virus in his native Liberia, was
being kept in isolation in a Dallas hospital and receiving experimental drugs.
Earlier
the US announced new screening measures at entry points to check travellers for
symptoms of the virus.
It
has killed 3,865 people, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, in the
worst Ebola outbreak yet.
"It
is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you
of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 am," a spokesman
said in a statement.
The
news came shortly after US Secretary of State John Kerry urged all nations to
boost their response to combat the virus.
"More
countries can and must step up," he said in a joint press conference with
his British counterpart Philip Hammond.
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