--- title: Neighbors of Dallas Ebola Patient Concerned description: Many residents of a Dallas neighborhood were woken early Sunday morning by a knock on their doors from city officials handing out Ebola information pamphlets... canonical: https://time.com/3500755/ebola-patient-dallas-neighbors/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-12T23:58:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:30.124Z article:section: Health og:title: Neighbors of Dallas Ebola Patient Concerned og:description: Many residents of a Dallas neighborhood were woken early Sunday morning by a knock on their doors from city officials handing out Ebola information pamphlets... og:url: https://time.com/3500755/ebola-patient-dallas-neighbors/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt827eb17565cc3224/698760410b72e3b1136daf9a/ebola-neighbor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Ebola og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Neighbors of Dallas Ebola Patient Concerned twitter:description: Many residents of a Dallas neighborhood were woken early Sunday morning by a knock on their doors from city officials handing out Ebola information pamphlets... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt827eb17565cc3224/698760410b72e3b1136daf9a/ebola-neighbor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Neighbors of Dallas Ebola Patient Concerned > Sponsored content. 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Second US Ebola Case_ by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Oct 12, 2014 11:58 PM UTC  A woman looks out of her window from an apartment building next door to the apartment building of a hospital worker, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, in Dallas A woman looks out of her window from an apartment building next door to the apartment building of a hospital worker, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, in Dallas Roger Steinman—AP by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Oct 12, 2014 11:58 PM UTC Many residents of a Dallas neighborhood were woken early Sunday morning by a knock on their doors from city officials handing out Ebola information pamphlets and informing them that someone who lives nearby had tested positive for Ebola. “It’s one thing to be in Dallas but for it to be next door, it’s like really close to home,” the unidentified patient’s next door neighbor, Chelsea Esposito, told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital announced Sunday morning that a health care worker who treated Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan had tested positive for the disease. Duncan died Wednesday… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/close-home-neighbors-dallas-ebola-patient-concerned-n224136?cid=par-time-article%5F20141012) ## Transcript We don't know what occurred, but at some point there was a breach in protocol. The CDC says that breach of protocol caused the first case of Ebola contracted in the U. S. A nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has tested positive for the disease. She treated Thomas Duncan. The Liberian man who flew to Dallas fell ill and died from Ebola on Wednesday. This individual was following full CDC precautions, which are bury and [ INAUDIBLE ]. So gown, glove, mask and shield. But we're confident that the precautions we have in place right now are protecting our healthcare workers. [ NOISE ] We're seeing that. Caregivers who are not being adequately trained, are being blamed and say, we're hearing that they have not followed proper protocol, when we have been asking our hospitals throughout the country to provide us with training. The World health Organization putting the current death toll at more than 4000. 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