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Ebola victim's fiancée struggles to rebuild life

DALLAS (AP) — The fiancée of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan is struggling to recover after losing her future husband along with most of her personal belongings, and she says she is effectively homeless due to the lingering stigma of the virus. Except for a few plastic bins of photographs and personal items, Troh's old apartment was stripped to the carpeting and burned. Troh says she hasn't been able to find a landlord willing to rent to her four-person household or one that her $9 per hour job in a nursing home can support. State and federal law prohibits discrimination against buyers or renters on the basis of race, sex, national origin, religion, sex, physical or mental disability and family status. For five days, Troh, her son, Duncan's nephew and a family friend were confined by armed guard to the apartment at The Ivy where Duncan had also stayed while his condition deteriorated but before he was hospitalized. When Duncan landed at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Sept.

 

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