By Sky News US Team
Thomas Eric Duncan, the ebola patient who died in a Texas hospital, had long-held ambitions to join his family in America and was planning to propose to his girlfriend, it has emerged.
Mr Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with ebola in the US, was born near a leper colony in Liberia but eventually fled the country during the civil war.
The 42-year-old was in America to attend the high-school graduation of his son, who moved to the US as a toddler.
According to his friends and family, Mr Duncan grew up in a village near the Yila Mission, an American Baptist mission hospital and leper colony.
He moved to a middle-class area in the Liberian capital Monrovia for high school. But by the time he was 18, warlord Charles Taylor invaded Liberia from Ivory Coast, initiating years of conflict.
Mr Duncan sought to join his half-sister who had moved to the US with her husband in 1989, shortly before Taylor's invasion. But his application was denied.
He fled to a refugee camp in the Ivory Coast, where he met Louise Troh, who would become his girlfriend. Their son was born in the camp.
When Ms Troh's application to live in America was accepted, she and the couple's son moved to the US - but Mr Duncan's efforts to relocate were denied.
He moved to another refugee camp in Ghana, then returned to Liberia where he worked as an executive's chauffeur.
When he arrived in the US on 20 September, it was the coronation of years of efforts.
He had confided that he wanted to ask Ms Troh to marry him, according to a lifelong friend, Thomas Kwenah, quoted by the AP news agency.
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Gallery: Ebola Crisis: Special Report
But by then he had already been exposed to ebola. He is believed to have contracted the virus while helping a pregnant neighbour in Liberia who eventually died.
Mr Duncan showed no symptoms on the flights.
But his death on Wednesday in Dallas alarmed the public in the US and raised questions over the authorities' ability to cope with the disease. Officials say an outbreak is unlikely in the US.
A sheriff's deputy who entered Mr Duncan's apartment, apparently without wearing protective clothing, is being tested for ebola in what officials say is an "abundance of caution".
The man has been identified as Michael Monnig in local news reports. His son, Logan, told the Dallas Morning News: "We don't want to cause a panic."
"There is almost no chance my dad would have ebola."
Four people in Mr Duncan's apartment, including Ms Troh, have been quarantined.
Meanwhile, the US military is working to build medical centres in Liberia and may send up to 4,000 soldiers to help with the crisis.
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Gallery: The Desperate Fight To Contain The Ebola Outbreak
A man rests outside the clinic.
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A woman is comforted after medical officials remove her husband, who is suspected of having the disease.
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Officials try to prevent themselves from spreading the disease.
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A local who has just brought his brother to the centre. He had to rely on plastic bags tied around his hands to try to protect himself.
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A man thought to be infected with ebola waits for treatment.
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Patients wait to be seen by medical staff.
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Workers try to decontaminate themselves.
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A worker with a child who may have caught ebola.
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A make-shift hand-washing station in Monrovia.
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Decontaminated boots of medical staff.
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The basic conditions make containing the disease very difficult.
In Spain, a nurse has tested positive to the deadly virus, while in Australia a woman is being tested.
US officials have also stepped up airport screening at five airports: New York's JFK, Newark in New Jersey, Washington Dulles, Chicago and Atlanta.
The new checks, taking effect from the weekend, will include taking the temperatures of hundreds of travellers arriving from West Africa.
The UK is facing calls for similar screenings.
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