He was due to leave for Switzerland to film a song sequence for "Jab Tak Hai Jaan," starring Mr. Khan and Katrina Kaiff, before he contracted the dengue fever that led to his death.
Some details have since emerged on the specifics of the patient and how he contracted the hemorrhagic fever.
According to Frieden, officials are not certain how the patient contracted the hemorrhagic fever that first showed up in Guinea back in December and has claimed more than 3,000 lives over the past 10 months.
Duncan contracted the hemorrhagic fever that is devastating West Africa while escorting an infected and pregnant neighbor to a hospital in Monrovia, prior to traveling to the US on September 19.
The smiling woman, Beatrice Yardolo, had contracted the deadly hemorrhagic fever on February 19.
When the Americans dismantled the camps, liberation reached Coco almost too late: Just a few days before the end of the Nazi regime, he had contracted the dreaded spotted fever.
On top of that, local healthcare workers have been highly vulnerable — at least 60 have died from the virus throughout the region, contracting the hemorrhagic fever after taking care of infected patients.
Humanitarian workers have expressed concern that fear of contracting the hemorrhagic fever is keeping local and international medical professionals from responding in the numbers needed to contain the outbreak.
Tweh finally brought the boy into the UNICEF-supported Pipeline clinic - which remained opened throughout the outbreak, but saw a drastic drop in patients - after realizing that other children going for treatment were not contracting the hemorrhagic fever that has infected nearly 24,000 people in the last year, mostly in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.
Some black homeowners contracted the buy-a-big-home fever that infected many Americans and took out ill-advised loans.
