Posted on 10/01/2014 6:45:23 PM PDT by jimbo123
The first reported case of Ebola in the United States is spooking airline investors and raising the prospect that some frightened travelers might stay home despite repeated reassurances from public-health experts.
Details of the man's 28-hour trip from western Africa emerged Wednesday. He flew on two airlines, took three flights, and had lengthy airport layovers before reaching Texas on Sept. 20.
Still, federal officials say other passengers on the flights are at no risk of infection because the man had no symptoms at the time of his trip.
Thomas Eric Duncan left Monrovia, Liberia, on Sept. 19 aboard a Brussels Airlines jet to the Belgian capital, according to a Belgian official. After layover of nearly seven hours, he boarded United Airlines Flight 951 to Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. After another layover of nearly three hours, he then flew Flight 822 from Dulles to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the airline confirmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at wfaa.com ...
*****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?
For most diseases, it is before symptoms (really insidious).
Apparently with this, it is with symptoms.
They DO vary. Most people assume when symptomatic, which is largely not true, but is why everyone freaks when someone is working with them who has left-over nasal discharge. I guess in the case of ebola, good reason to freak.
The question has been raised as to whether he ‘knew’ he was sick with Ebola before he got on the flight to come to the US.
I think the answer lies in finding out WHY he decided to leave Liberia. Wasn’t there some question over whether his visa was even still valid ?
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?
Or the sister got married and took her husband’s name.
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.
Possible, but what about her FIRST NAME ?
I don’t think it’s in the BOOK OF BABY NAMES from the shelves at Barnes and Noble.
Africa to US with two plane changes is hardly an unusual trip.
I've had two or three lengthy layovers on some domestic trips. Not at all unusual, especially if you're taking inconvenient schedule because you're trying to save money.
I once spent 14 hours in the Chicago airport, but saved $600 by doing so.
P.S. Here’s her listed name.
Mai Wureh.
You think her maiden name was Mai Duncan ?
I’m guessing we will find out in a few days that he was using an alias. Again, it was likely done legally and done when he first applied for a visa to the US.
I just watched a cute blondie on Fox assure us that an outbreak here in the US is highly unlikely “ as long as we contain it”
Donchya just love how reporters say the dumbest things with a completely straight face?
Will the plane he traveled on be scrubbed down?
We swore off restaurants and fast food a month ago.
debated the hell out of this business travel. Guess we figgerd wrong. $hit can be anywhere now.
FWIW, there are more than 14,000 people in the US with the first name Mai.
http://howmanyofme.com/search/
My limited understanding of Liberia is that many of the people are descended from the old Afro-Americans and have impeccably Anglo-American names.
Discussed on another thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3210062/posts
that airplane subsequently went to Ohare (where united is based from) for a likely cleaning and maintenance visit. United only uses ‘Fantastik!’ to clean their planes.
Now we have Obama flying into Gary Indiana for a visit to Chicago. And the suspicious fire at Ohare on the 26th that shut it down...
Lots of tinfoil here for the wrapping..
I am beginning to think this guy is a musilm human vector. As such, he is more effective than a suicide bomber.
This guy obviously knew he was infected and flew here to get free medical treatment. Many more will follow if they aren’t already here. This guy caused my 401k to drop several thousands of dollars just today. He single handedly caused billions of dollars in damage to our economy and our government did nothing to stop him.
Unless our government officials get over their political correctness, 1/2 of the population of this country could die in the next year or two if this thing gets out of hand.
But our political leaders have no stomach for the measures it would take to ensure this is kept under control.
Call your congressman and Senators and demand that they tell you what they plan to do to make sure that your family is not made a victim of this epidemic. Tell them they need to shut the borders to all illegal immigration and deny visas or entrance to this country by anyone who has visited any of these infected countries in the last 30 days.
It’s not that hard, it just takes someone with the courage to make it happen.
Just posted that the man should be indicted, tried and executed for what he has done. He KNEW he had been exposed directly to his infected relative and came running over here so he could get treatment and has potentially infected MANY other people in the process. Premeditated murder.
Seems like the risk continues to go to Texas.
He's probably not going to survive. And if he does survive, he will be hailed as a victor over the disease. You did happen to notice that he is black, didn't you?
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