Posted on 07/29/2014 10:30:31 AM PDT by Freeport
An Ebola victim who was allowed to board an international flight was an American citizen on his way home to the United States, it has emerged.
Patrick Sawyer worked for the Liberian government and was visiting his sister there when he developed symptoms while on a plane to Nigeria. He was quarantined on arrival in Lagos and died on Friday.
His wife, Decontee, 34, who like Mr Sawyer is originally from Liberia, currently at the heart of the terrifying Ebola outbreak, said he had been due to travel on to America where he could have become Patient Zero in a US epidemic.
The 40-year-old father-of-three is believed to have contracted the disease from his sister, whom he was caring for without knowing she had Ebola.
Mr Sawyer took two flights to get to Nigeria from Liberia, where he had attended his sister's funeral. The first took him from Monrovia to Lome in Togo, where he boarded a plane to Lagos. He collapsed at the airport on landing.
The Nigerian authorities have closed the hospital he was treated at, First Consultants Hospital in Obalende, one of the busiest parts of the city with a population of around 21 million.
Manifests of the passengers and crew who travelled on the same flights as Mr Sawyer have yet to be released
His job involved promoting trade in West Africa and he was on his way to a conference in Lagos from where he planned to travel back to the US when he fell ill with vomiting and diarrhea.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The Last ship was a novel that was published years and years ago.
Not a very good novel either.
Did you see the gowns, masks and gloves? Safety glasses? It is simply unfathomable to me that so many many healthcare workers are getting this strain - and dying of it as well.
This ebola has to be 100% pathogenic on any first contact and deadly as can be from the tiniest particle imaginable.
Then figure in the guy on the plane vomiting and having diarrhea - most people touch the counter in the plane bathroom while there - and all those next to him, or flight attendants. All released to go on to more international flights to hand out food and drinks and hand back credit cards to more international passengers, perhaps infectious but not openly sick yet.
Add in the famous toothpick studies from restaurants where they are loaded with fecal matter - almost no one washes their hands well enough.
Then you have the patients showing up in ERs with vomiting and diarrhea, ho hum, see them all the time, last thing anyone is going to consider is ebola - it is way too zebra. So all of those staff, like me, treating the patient and drawing blood and handling the stool.
I mean this could not be worse - you couldn't come up with a disaster movie any better than this.
Yet another possible "leak" from Africa...one of these many many potential leaks is going to be deadly.
I’ll try to find the article from the Nigerian paper that said not only were they not sure the number of potential contact they needed to look for, but that the contact they HAD contacted were on the run!
http://www.mydailynewswatchng.com/ebola-victims-death-fg-lagos-launch-manhunt-co-passengers/
That entire airplane is a biohazard. Totally. Should have been burned.
The cleaning crew is contaminated now unless they were level 4 protected.
As are any subsequent passengers on any further flights.
And the flight staff as well.
And all of their famlies.
My point was that those two rodents feed on blood. Ebola is transmitted by contact with vomit, feces and blood. Cross the two issues and voila you have a nice vector.
Of course I already stated that in the post you responded to.
Wow, that is pretty close to home. My wife works in healthcare and has a few Liberian co-workers. The ones I know are very nice, hard working people.
The show is airing on TNT now. I am enjoying it...
Minnesota, just a few miles from patient zero.
Oh, I know. I watch it too.
It is a fun show, but it brings some chortles from the audience in my house when the ships commander and the XO go out on a tactical mission—leaving the SF guy back on board flirting with the Dr.
And the Hazardous Materials handling is comic.
Agree. He was one of the good guys, it seems, a responsible family man.
I knew a young man who worked in Saudi for three years back when that was safe. . And I've met a lot of fellows on planes coming out of Asian countries…oil company employees, etc., who were having fun traveling and making big bucks.
BUT. Ebola is one ferocious disease, if it gets out of Africa it's going to put a damper on overseas employment. And pleasure travel. What are the airlines doing to sterilize those planes?
Drat! There goes my vacation to Bong.
Yeah, there is some required suspension of disbelief, but it’s overall a good show.
I'm jealous. Although I do have a bitchin' little wind up music box that plays Waltzing Matilda, in the event I meet up with any feral kids with razor sharp boomerangs.
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One of the things ebola does is affect the victim’s mental state. If he was symptomatic, he was already likely showing mental effects.
I doubt he was trying to kill his wife and daughters.
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