*****BACKGROUND
Mr. Duncan had direct contact with a 7 mos. pregnant woman, 19 year old Marthalene Williams, stricken by Ebola on Sept. 15, just four days before he left Liberia for the United States.
Mr. Duncan was a tenant in the Williams house.
Turned away from a hospital for lack of space in its Ebola treatment ward, her family said they (father, brother and Duncan) took Ms. Williams back home that evening, and that she died hours later, around 3 a.m.
Her brother, Sonny Boy, 21, started getting sick about a week ago, his family said, around the same time that Mr. Duncan first started showing symptoms.
In a sign of how furiously the disease can spread, an ambulance had come to their house on Wednesday to pick up Sonny Boy. Another ambulance picked up a woman and her daughter from the same area, and a team of body collectors came to retrieve the body of yet another woman — all four appeared to have been infected in a chain reaction started by Marthalene Williams.
A few minutes after the ambulance left, the parents got a call telling them that Sonny Boy had died on the way to the hospital.
*****TIMELINE
September 16, 2014 - President Barack Obama calls the efforts to combat the Ebola outbreak centered in West Africa "the largest international response in the history of the CDC." Speaking from the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Obama adds that "faced with this outbreak, the world is looking to" the United States to lead international efforts to combat the virus. He says the United States is ready to take on that leadership role.
Duncan boarded an SN Brussels Airlines flight. That plane took him first to the Belgian capital, and he then flew to the United States, where he arrived September 20.
He was on two United Airlines flights -- Flight 951 from Brussels to Washington Dulles and Flight 822 from Washington Dulles to Dallas-Fort Worth -- during that trip, according to a spokesperson for the airline who did not want to be named. first symptoms 9/24
first hospital visit 9/26
Sunday 9/28 patient brought by ambulance to hospital and diagnosed with ebolawas seen vomiting on the ground outside an apartment complex as he was bundled into an ambulance.
”At the apartment complex, Osmanovic said he met the man three times over the years when he was visiting his family. Most of the neighborhood is from Liberia, Somalia or the Sudan. Osmanovic is from Bosnia.[snip]
”Dr. Christopher Perkins, Dallas County Health and Human Services Medical Director, said that of the 18 people who had been in contact, many were "close family members." The children among them "did not have any symptoms and so the odds of them passing on any sort of virus is very low," said Mike Miles, Dallas Independent School District superintendent.
COINCIDENCE?
gotnews.com says a contracting company (for UPS) paid for his tickets.
Did he embezzle them? Why would they have bought his tickets if he had quit?
SO.... he could have gotten the virus MUCH EARLIER than we have been told (when he carried the woman to the hospital).
If he was living with her, maybe he got if from the same source she did.
Which would mean he ‘knew’ or suspected he would be coming down with it quickly.
Seems like the risk continues to go to Texas.
how do they think American volunteers who contracted the disease if not airborne? They said they took every precaution and still got the disease. We are already dealing with d-68. Looks like Mr. Duncan? was determined to bring EBOLA here.