--- 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Neighbors of Dallas Ebola Patient Concerned ## Video: Second US Ebola Case [Watch (HLS stream): Second US Ebola Case](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Qj7qa6OI.m3u8) (1:19)  _Published 2014-10-13. 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 DallasRoger 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) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3500755/ebola-patient-dallas-neighbors/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3500755/ebola-patient-dallas-neighbors/"},"headline":"Neighbors of Dallas Ebola Patient Concerned","datePublished":"2014-10-12T23:58:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:00:30.124Z","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...","url":"https://time.com/3500755/ebola-patient-dallas-neighbors/","keywords":["ebola"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt827eb17565cc3224/698760410b72e3b1136daf9a/ebola-neighbor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt827eb17565cc3224/698760410b72e3b1136daf9a/ebola-neighbor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ebola","caption":"Ebola","creditText":"Roger Steinman—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3500755/ebola-patient-dallas-neighbors/","name":"Neighbors of Dallas Ebola Patient Concerned"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Second US Ebola Case","description":"Second US Ebola Case","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Qj7qa6OI/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-10-13T11:34:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Qj7qa6OI.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3500755/ebola-patient-dallas-neighbors/","duration":"PT1M19S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3500755/ebola-patient-dallas-neighbors/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```