Patrick Sawyer had one stop to make before heading home to Minnesota to celebrate his daughters' birthdays: a conference in Lagos, Nigeria. But when he landed in Lagos, Sawyer, 40, collapsed getting off the plane. He had been infected with Ebola in Liberia, where he worked as a top government official in the Liberian Ministry of Finance. Sawyer was isolated at a local Nigerian hospital on July 20. He died five days later. Sawyer's wife Decontee Sawyer, lives in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, with the couple's three young daughters, 5-year-old Eva, 4-year-old Mia, and Bella, who is 1. The Sawyers are naturalized citizens; their daughters were born in the United States.
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Family: Infected American "very physically weak, but his spirit (is) determined"
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CNN's Gupta: Curbing Ebola almost "impossible," but it can be contained
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Patrick Sawyer's family lives Minnesota; he worked in Liberia and died in Nigeria
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Hundreds have been infected with Ebola around Africa
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