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.
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Exactly.
If the guy developed symptoms ON the plane, he was at his peak contagious period. It's ALWAYS the day before and the day you start showing symptoms. With any virus.
That's how they spread because if you were contagious after you showed symptoms, you could just quarantine the individual and and stop the virus in it's tracks.
God help the world, this is insane.
As a physician (I play one on TV), my advice is that we ALL start drinking heavily. Now.
The Interim President of Liberia after Doe was removed from office, feet first, was a man named Amos Sawyer. I wonder if Patrick Sawyer was a relative.
Yeah...
Fellow passengers on his plane were given warnings about the disease’s symptoms, which can include bleeding from the nose and mouth, but were allowed to continue on their journeys.
THAT, is the scary part. No one seemed concerned enough to issue a quarantine or a test or anything just basically the old standby "take two aspirin and put your end between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye..."
Those flights are not direct. They would go through London, a major worldwide hub, where Ebola could be spread to the entire world in an hour….one case at a time, of course.
Apparently this strain is more contagious, but less deadly. You have a 40% chance of survival if you catch it. Still not “great” odds, but 40% is way better than 10%.
An urban Ebola outbreak is about the only thing that would make me back full-on martial law. That $#!^ is horrifying.
I wouldn’t mind if my local JBT enforced martial law/quarantines...as long as I knew they’d get Ebola too.
Karma’s a bitch.
Excellent comment on a very real potential threat!
Thanks.
Yep, 21 days before symptoms are evident in many victims.
This virulent virus may already be among-us.
If it ain't Mad Max, I will be sorely disappointed. I just got cool-looking leather armor and a Mohawk.
I was reading where two older guys knocked over a Clinic for Viagra and I was wondering where you was at. ;-)
Ping...
Glib comment - you had plenty to say before - nothing useful, however, hence ‘glib lib’.
It’s transmitted by bats. I avoid moon bats to the best of my abilities.
I do have enough to keep the house covered for a season or longer but we work in healthcare, so...
“As a physician (I play one on TV), my advice is that we ALL start drinking heavily.”
Should you get a part as a politician I would vote for you.
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