--- description: He decorated his house with biohazard containers and quarantine tape title: Dallas Man's Ebola-Themed Halloween House Decorations Go Viral image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Dallas Man's Halloween House Decorations Look Like Ebola Patients' Quarantined Apartments  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Oct 24, 2014 3:49 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Oct 24, 2014 3:49 PM CUT A Dallas man’s Ebola-themed Halloween decorations are going viral. Dressed in a protective suit, James Faulk set up biohazard barrels and bags of “biowaste” surrounded by yellow caution tape in front of his University Park house and wrapped the second-floor balcony in white tape that says “quarantine.” The decorations are supposed to mimic the scene outside the apartment complex where Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die of Ebola in the U.S., stayed when he fell ill. Faulk [told the Associated Press](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US%5FEBOLA%5FHALLOWEEN%5FHOUSE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT "undefined") he’s trying to lighten the mood, as residents in the Dallas area are on edge after two of Duncan’s nurses contracted the virus as well — though one was determined to be free of the virus Friday morning. The question is whether [it’s too soon](http://time.com/3535902/craig-spencer-ebowla-jokes-lack-empathy/ "undefined") to make light of the virus in general.  LM Otero—AP ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3536656/ebola-dallas-halloween-house-decorations/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3536656/ebola-dallas-halloween-house-decorations/"},"headline":"Dallas Man's Halloween House Decorations Look Like Ebola Patients' Quarantined Apartments","datePublished":"2014-10-24T15:49:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:21.740Z","description":"Too soon?","url":"https://time.com/3536656/ebola-dallas-halloween-house-decorations/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3536656/ebola-dallas-halloween-house-decorations/","name":"Dallas Man's Halloween House Decorations Look Like Ebola Patients' Quarantined Apartments"}}]}] ```