--- 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... title: Neighbors of Dallas Ebola Patient Concerned image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt827eb17565cc3224/698760410b72e3b1136daf9a/ebola-neighbor.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Health](/section/health/) ## Health Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [ebola](/tag/ebola/) ## ebola Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Neighbors of Dallas Ebola Patient Concerned by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 12, 2014 11:58 PM CUT  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](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 12, 2014 11:58 PM CUT 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 "undefined") ```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":"2026-02-21T10:44:17.352Z","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"}}] ```