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 Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national who is the first person to be diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the U.S., traveled to Dallas to marry his longtime girlfriend and the mother of his 19-year-old son, the pastor of the woman's church told NBC News on Saturday. He has been confirmed as having Ebola, and the hospital where he’s being cared for today downgraded his condition to critical. George Mason, senior pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, said the church has been "doing whatever is permitted" to help the woman — who is named Louise and whose last name NBC News is not reporting — and the three children with whom she is in isolation at an undisclosed location in Dallas.
– The Ebola patient who's in critical condition in Dallas traveled there to marry his longtime girlfriend, who's now in quarantine with three children at an undisclosed location, her church's pastor tells NBC News. The pastor, George Mason, says the church has been trying to help the woman, identified by Bloomberg as Louise Troh, as she grapples with fear of the disease and her relationship with fiance Thomas Duncan. "She is overwhelmed," says Mason. "She's doing better now that they have moved her. The place that they're living in now is much easier now. There's less scrutiny, and it's more private." But he admits that his church, Wilshire Baptist, can't do much for her because of the quarantine. It's not her first brush with tragedy, either: After moving to the US from her homeland of Liberia 10 years ago, she lost a baby in childbirth, says Mason. She and Duncan had an earlier child in Liberia, but they "had a falling out of some sort," Mason says, and only recently decided to reconcile. Now Troh worries that Duncan won't recover from Ebola and she too may be infected—which a disease expert tells CBS News is "absolutely" possible. "I would not be surprised" if someone who came in contact with Duncan "will get Ebola," he says. Meanwhile, Mason talked about Troh at Sunday service today and told congregants that donations to the church would to go to helping Duncan, Troh, or Ebola victims in Africa. (Read about an NBC cameraman with Ebola.)