he also says he wants the healthcare workers to be scared because hechty fear is crucial to remaining metic lus in care and prevention. he also said however that our focus should be on stopping this happening in africa because outbreak anywhere is a threat everywhere. let's bring in al jazeera's diane esterbrook live for nus dallas this after be and joins us with the latest on the situation on the ground. diane, can you give us an update on thomas duncan's condition? >> we don't know a whole lot about his condition at this time. we do know he is in critical condition. his condition was downgraded yesterday from sirius to critical. we do have calls into the hospital. they tell us they may have an update for us this afternoon. at this point, we don't have anything more to say than he is in fact in critical condition and they are watching him closely. >> which is interesting because we heard from clay due is jenkins, the dallas county judge and he said the dallas patient is low -- a low risk individual and has not committed a crime. he also went on to thank the faith based community, spe