The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States remains in critical but stable condition at a Dallas hospital. Thomas Eric Duncan is receiving an experimental drug and is on dialysis in a fight for his life. On a visit to Dallas to support Duncan’s extended family, Rev. Jesse Jackson expressed concerns about his treatment.

Rev. Jesse Jackson: “In the case of Eric Duncan, the concern here is that we see him as a patient, and not see him as a criminal. When he was in Liberia with a great reputation, he assisted a woman who was pregnant to get healthcare. She died. No wonder that she had the Ebola. He came to America to marry, without feeling any symptoms of sickness. He came and went straight home to be with his to-be family. Clearly, if he had an infectious disease, to his knowledge, he would not have done that. He got sick and came to the hospital, and the symptoms of vomiting and the symptoms of temperature rising and the like, and was sent back home, back into the world with these diseases.”

Duncan, who has no health insurance, was initially sent home from a Dallas hospital despite telling a nurse he had been to Liberia. He was readmitted by ambulance four days later. Four of Duncan’s relatives have been quarantined, and dozens of others with whom he may have come into contact are being monitored. An American journalist being treated in Nebraska after contracting Ebola in Liberia is receiving the same experimental drug as Duncan. The journalist, Ashoka Mukpo, is said to be in stable condition.