Posted on 10/03/2014 6:11:20 PM PDT by huldah1776
It has now been established by authorities of the Liberian Government that Mr. Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who became the “first ever” Ebola case diagnosed in the US, will be prosecuted if and when he gets back to Liberia.
The Associated Press (AP) quoted Mr. Binyah Kesselly as saying that Mr. Duncan would be prosecuted because he had lied on his airport health questionnaire when he filled it at the Roberts International Airport (RIA), minutes before he flew out of Liberia on September 19.
As one of several measures put into place at the airport because of the deadly Ebola virus disease, passengers flying out of Liberia are being screened and body temperature recorded. They are also asked if they had come into contact with any Ebola patients in the last 21 days.
It was that very question—whether he had contacted an Ebola patient in the last 21 days— according to the Deputy Information Minister for Public Affairs, Isaac W. Jackson, that Duncan, who is now admitted at a Texas hospital “in a stable but critical condition,” “lied” by answering “no.”
Min. Jackson further told this paper via telephone Thursday, October 2, that Duncan lied under oath and, “for that reason, he can be prosecuted.” He also stated that another reason why Duncan will be taken to court is that he violated Chapters 13 and 14 of the Public Health Law of Liberia. According to Min. Jackson, who is also an attorney, those two chapters talk about negligent conduct of putting others at risk when one is fully aware of the health risk.
About Duncan being aware of his medical condition before he left Liberia, his former boss, Mr. Henry Brunson, 60, manager of SafeWay Cargo, a licensed agent of FedEx, agreed that Duncan knew that he was infected with the virus, having directly participated in efforts to help save the life of his landlord’s daughter, who was pregnant. Mr. Brunson said Duncan was his “personal chauffeur” before he (Duncan) just “walked out” on September 4, and never saw nor heard from him again until it was reported that he had been diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the US. He stated that while he is sorry that Duncan might have passed the virus to others over the last few days, he, however, said he is glad that Duncan is in the US where he would get the best treatment to survive. “If he were in Liberia, he was going to surely die,” Mr. Brunson added sadly.
Duncan’s landlord’s daughter, Ms. Nathaline (earlier reported as Marthaline) Williams, 19, was seven months pregnant when she died of Ebola on September 16, having been rejected at three major hospitals in and around Monrovia, including JFK Memorial Hospital, ELWA Hospital and Benson Hospital. She was also rejected at Fredai Clinic at Police Academy Junction.
According to Duncan’s 72nd residence neighbors and Mr. Jiminez Grugbaye, taxi driver, who drove Duncan, Nathaline and her parents to all these health facilities, Duncan helped carried Nathaline when they got back home at midnight after she had been rejected at all those health facilities. “He was holding her hands; her brother held her from her back while her father held her feet as they carried her from the taxi to their apartment where she died,” 31-year-old Irene Seyou, who lives next door to Mr. Duncan’s apartment in the same building, told the Daily Observer.
Our Health Correspondent was told that Nathaline’s brother and an aunt of hers died few days ago, too, of Ebola. Her father and mother are now being isolated in the Ebola treatment unit.
Meanwhile, Grugbaye, the taxi driver, who looks healthy at the moment, said after they had been rejected at all of those health facilities, knew that something wasn’t right about his sick passenger’s illness.
“When I got home, I chlorinated my entire vehicle. I repeated it the next day before I got back in the traffic,” he stated.
He told the Daily Observer that he felt feverish on Wednesday and visited a “German Clinic”, where he was treated and discharged few hours later the same day. He, however, said he is willing to be placed under quarantine by health officials.
“Why didn’t Duncan say he thought he had Ebola when he first went to the hospital in Dallas.”
Supposedly he told them there that he had just come from Liberia (not Nigeria). I would think that would be a red flag.
The hospital fell down on its job, too.
He probably did, but you know, that bug in the software prevented the doctors from learning about that.
“When I got home, I chlorinated my entire vehicle. I repeated it the next day before I got back in the traffic,” he stated.
It sounds as if the parents were less than forthcoming about the nature of their daughter's illness. Perhaps Duncan thought she merely had a serious pregnancy complication (she was seven months pregnant). Perhaps that's what they told Duncan and the cabby.
If he knew he'd handled an Ebola patient, why didn't he push back at his first ER visit, when Dr. Feelgood sent him off with antibiotics and a pain killer? "Hey Doc! Antibiotics don't work for what I have. I need ZMapp! Stat! Or maybe some of that lamivudine stuff."
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to be Ebola-free”
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bttt for later reading. The Statue of Liberty, if she could, would be trying to protect us.
Ack, I’m tired and sad, for other reasons. This just puts the icing on the cake.
My prayers go out to everyone here. Seriously.
Harwood actually found it, at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3210817/posts?page=30#30 . I just noticed that she said she was from Ecuador.
I’m wondering if Duncan claimed that he was going to visit a US-citizen relative in order to get a visa but really there was no relative and instead he was planning to live with this woman and maybe marry her if it was necessary to stay legally. The woman’s daughter is trying to legitimize the situation by calling Duncan her “step-dad”. Since the woman was in Liberia Aug 10-11 they may have hatched the scheme at that time. I wonder how long she’s been in Dallas.
There was an article where the boss and/or former co-workers of Duncan said they thought he knew he was infected and he headed to America in desperation to live.
But I also noticed 2 different articles today which talked about hemorrhagic fever showing up suddenly and strangely in Venezuela and in Honduras (IIRC it was thought the infected person in Honduras had come from El Salvador). I wouldn’t doubt at all that South and Central America are inundated with people trying to get on the pipeline into the US - and at least some of those people are sick and wanting US medical care OR jihadists willing to bring pestilence with them.
Why didn’t he tell his girlfriend and her family upon arrival?
Before he shared a bed with her and shed virus all over their bathroom?
“The hospital fell down...”
I agree. But we talked about this at work. There are so many people that don’t watch the news. There are so many people that don’t know where the heck Liberia is.
You would like to think that a hospital would be a little more tuned in...but the people that work there, maybe not....unless they had seen the guy on American Idol.
We are doomed.
Normalicy bias. If he said “I have Ebola” in no uncertain terms, they’d dismiss the comment as ignorant nonsense.
Probably a big part of it as well.
Have no fear. Eric Holder is on the case!
Thanks for the ping!
How much is his care costing us?
Mr. Obama said that sometimes you just have to take the pain pill rather than having the surgery or other procedures that won’t do much to stem end of life issues.
We are propping up a man who may not survive and if he does, he’ll be sentenced to prison for his dangerous crime?
Kind of like nursing the Ft. Hood shooter back to health so we can execute him (under some non-Obama administration).
Because there were no open beds, people are laying in the streets outside of the hospitals, and he has relatives here knowing he would be taken care of.
IT’S OPEN BORDERS, BUT THE INTAKE OFFICE IS AT 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE, so make sure to book your flights to Ronald Reagan National Airport and ask for Kenyan/Indonesian Barack Obama. You might see him or his wife holding up a sign saying
#Welcome to America!
The second half of the post was addressed to the Secret Service/NSA/DHS or anyone else who has access to the Black List.
This guy isn’t a citizen but hey, the journalist is symptomatic and was hired after exposure. I hope he has obamacare.
If we save him, he should be sent to jail for life.
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