[LurkedLongEnough]

According to the Official CDC Health Advisory dated September 3, 2004:

"The patient left Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Astraeus Flight 72, which departed 11:15 pm on August 23, 2004 and arrived at Gatwick Airport in London, England. He then traveled on Continental Flight 29, which departed London Gatwick Airport on August 24 and arrived in Newark, N.J., at 3:20 pm on August 24."

[Poundstone]

"The man died of Lassa fever, a virus spread through rat droppings or urine that can be passed to other people through bodily fluids but not through causal contact, officials said."

Geez, what was he doing to get this disease? Yuck.

[joesnuffy]

Any animals that go to and from foreign lands (even from the states to Hawaii) are all put in quarantine before they can come into contact with other animals or humans...

Yet humans who will be the most likely carriers of diseases deadly to man.....are not quarantined or screened ....I suppose it would 'violate their rights'...(to contaminate others or to trigger epidemics)

imo

[lilylangtree]

Wonder what type of person was he intimate with?

[LurkedLongEnough]

FYI - NJ Transit Issues Warnings About Man With Rare Disease

UPDATED: 2:47 pm EDT September 3, 2004

"TRENTON, N.J. -- Notices were issued to NJ Transit riders and employees Friday to inform them that the Mercer County man who died of an illness rarely seen in the United States rode on one of the agency's trains several days before his death.

State health officials also said the man's six children would be held out of school until the 21-day incubation period for the potentially contagious disease passes and it is determined they were not infected.

Authorities said they were taking precautions even though there was little chance that the disease could spread to anyone else..."

[sweetiepiezer]

Just cancelled my trip to Liberia.

LOL

[DameAutour]

Well, did he get it in Liberia or Joisey?