[Noamie]

He was able to get so sick because his first Ebola screen cleared him.

Apparently, getting cleared means they don’t bother to screen you again for, like, a week. Even if you continue to show symptoms.

The radio reports I have heard today make no mention of the false positive that killed him.

[Noamie]

I wrote “false positive” above, but I meant “false negative”, I think.

[Sons of Union Vets]

Salia had been working as a general surgeon at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown. It's not clear whether he was involved in the care of Ebola patients. Kissy is not an Ebola treatment unit, but Salia worked in at least three other facilities, United Methodist News said, citing health ministry sources.

Salia, a Sierra Leone citizen who was a permanent resident of the U.S. and lived in Maryland, first showed Ebola symptoms on Nov. 6 but tested negative for the virus. He eventually tested positive on Monday. Smith called the initial test results "not unusual."

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/11/17/surgeon-who-contracted-ebola-virus-in-sierra-leone-dies-at-nebraska-hospital/

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This was the whole point with quarantining nurse Kaci Hickox.

Even though no virus showed up in Hickox's initial blood work, the Maine CDC official felt that she had been tested for Ebola too early......that it was possible the virus could still show up during the period of incubation. The Maine CDC official was especially concerned after learning that Hickox's room mate tested positive for Ebola.