Posted on 10/01/2014 3:45:29 PM PDT by Chgogal
Hundreds of airline passengers were exposed to the Liberian national before he landed in Dallas, last month, as it is revealed that he took at least three flights to get from Monrovia, Liberia to Texas.
Officials announced that Thomas Eric Duncan flew through Brussels to get to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport - but no airlines operate a direct flight from the European capital to Dallas, meaning he had to take a connecting flight in between.
U.S. officials have refused to release details of his itinerary, including which city he connected through - claiming that none of his fellow passengers are at risk.
Several leading U.S. airlines said on Wednesday they were in close contact with federal health officials about Ebola-related travel.
Airlines for America, the industry trade group, on Wednesday U.S. airlines are in regular contact with the Centers for Disease Control and other government agencies about helping to prevent the spread of Ebola.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
CNN is currently reporting that up to 20 people have been exposed to patient (Dallas Patient Zero).
“”Very strange, because living in Liberia, he must have known that he had had serious exposure. So he comes back here and exposes his family (including five children) to it?””
Isn’t his home in Liberia? It occurs to me that his family here should have told him they really didn’t want him to visit at this time. They had to know what’s been going on there so why not take the chance he’d be offended rather than them being exposed to the virus just in case. We’re to believe he wasn’t sick when he left Liberia and that may be true but it’s careless on his part in any case. That’s what I would have done. “We would love to see you but perhaps another time.”
Who pays the hospital bill in TX? Hmmmm? I guess no different from any other “transient” who shows up for care in a TX hospital or one in any other state. We’re such compassionate people!!!!!
A commenter at the Daily Mail site had this to say:
“Just like they won’t release his travel info because he wasn’t contagious back then. They never bothered to consider if he caught it on the flight. He took 4-5 days from the flight to the hospital. Ebola has an incubation of 3-16 days. Don’t worry about a thing. The competent people at the CDC got this and are exhausting all possibilities.”
It IS what I said. “he didn’t want to get sick in Liberia. Who could blame him?”
Would you want to be sick with a deadly disease in Liberia?
No, he is not an American citizen. He’s from Ghana but grew up in Liberia.
“CNN is currently reporting that up to 20 people have been exposed to patient (Dallas Patient Zero).”
Echoing a question posed by a freeper on another thread...
If the incubation period is 20 days, how did he already infect his family member and have them experiencing symptoms?
Very interesting, indeed.
When it says “Dengue/hemorrhagic fever” does that mean that dengue is another name for hemorrhagic fever (which is also called ebola)? Or is it just classifying two different diseases together in one list?
Two people in CO and 1 in AZ have the plague?
I look at this and I can’t help but believe that this regime is using our border for biological warfare against the American people.
Are you saying that you would knowingly infect people with a deadly disease?
OK, so this is one guy. But as long as we keep letting in people from the affected countries there is going to be another, and another, and another. There’s going to be someone who doesn’t visit their family, who doesn’t go to the hospital, some schmuck who goes around to strip bars or something like that and ends up bleeding out in an alley.
Try tracing the contacts from someone like that.
There is no reasonable reason that we are still permitting people from these countries to come here.
Looks like he could be one of O’bola’s half brothers
It’ll be a disaster ... all happening JUST BEFORE the 2014 ELECTIONS!
THAT is a damned good question.
I’ve read that it takes anywhere between 2-21 days for the symptoms to show up. That’s a big variation.
I don’t fully understand what is meant by “incubation”. Does that mean that the individual germs have to somehow mature before they can pass on to somebody else? Does it mean that’s how long it takes for there to be enough germs in the body fluids to infect somebody else? Does it mean that’s when the germs would come out in ways that people could get it (like sweat, blood, etc)?
I read an article saying that the virus is still in semen 7 months after the symptoms are all gone. How does that fit with the “you can’t infect somebody if you’re not exhibiting symptoms” claim?
I wish there was somebody we could trust to give us the real low-down.
The CDC doctor (IIRC) said the incubation was between 2 days and 21 days (3 weeks).
In other words, they don’t really know. They are playing it by ear.
Monrovia to? ?
? ? To Brussels
Per a post in this thread, no direct flight Monrovia to Brussels.
This foreign national KNEW he was exposed to Ebola. He rode in a taxi with a girl who died of Ebola the next day.
This is a planned Ebola attack on the USA.
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