Liberia to Prosecute Man Who Brought Ebola to US

AP/ABC News ^ | October 2, 2014 | JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH

[Raebie]

Liberian authorities say they plan to prosecute the man infected with Ebola who brought the disease to the United States, saying he lied on his airport health questionnaire.

With an Ebola crisis raging in West Africa, passengers leaving Liberia are being screened for fever and are asked if they have had contact with anyone infected.

On the questionnaire obtained by The Associated Press, Thomas Eric Duncan answered 'no' to those questions.

Neighbors say Duncan had helped a sick pregnant woman who later died of the disease. Her illness at the time was believed to be pregnancy-related.

Binyah Kesselly, chairman of the board of directors of the Liberia Airport Authority, told reporters Thursday that Duncan will be prosecuted when he returns to Liberia.

[bgill]

"Duncan will be prosecuted when IF he returns to Liberia"

We should prosecute anyone who brings it here. We won't because we're being lead around by the nose by PC and Obola the Destroyer.

[bgill]

Auntie Zeituni, Uncle Omar and now Cousin Thomas. Welcome to America. Don’t forget to pick up your free gov goodie bag.

[thackney]

Here is one of the other reports

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/ebola-patient-thomas-eric-duncan-fell-ill-after-helping-woman-n216221

Four days before he flew to Dallas to visit family members, cargo driver Thomas Eric Duncan helped his landlords take their 19-year-old daughter, Marthalene Williams, to a clinic that was so crowded with Ebola patients that it turned her away, The New York Times reported. The family, which had tried and failed to get an ambulance, took the convulsing woman back home, where she died hours later. “He was holding her by the legs,” a neighbor told the newspaper.

Williams’ brother, who was also in the taxi, started getting symptoms a week ago and quickly died, the family told the Times. Three other women from the same area also got sick at the same time. By then, Duncan was already gone from Liberia.

[BlatherNaut]

Also, if he came here for Zmapp, he’s out of luck. I read that there aren’t even any more supplies of it.

Except perhaps in Obola's stash.

[RetSignman]

Ebola
++
0bomber has changed the name of that too...it’s now Ibola.

[greeneyes]

Meanwhile, the Obama administration says it will not institute tougher Ebola screening at West African airports because the current screenings are sufficient.
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So now Obama thinks he is the dictator of West Africa? He can just implement whatever he deems necessary?

[cynwoody]

I haven’t followed all this real closely, but I feel like this guy is up to something in addition to having the ebola.
Not sure what.

He had a round-trip ticket (required for visa purposes, I've heard) purchased by another company that operates at the Monrovia airport (not the one he worked for). Did he have a friend who worked there? The ticket was purchased well before his Ebola exposure.

My guess is he simply wanted out of Liberia and planned to overstay his visa and add one more to our illegal immigrant population.

[cynwoody]

CDC says it can be as short as 2 days. The 21 days is the maximum time. Same info from the WHO.

I think I read somewhere that the median incubation period is 5.5 days.

[thackney]

From CDC link:

Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days.

[cynwoody]

CDC says it can be as short as 2 days. The 21 days is the maximum time. Same info from the WHO.

I think I read somewhere that the median incubation period is 5.5 days.

[greeneyes]

He got his ticket quite a bit in advance of his departure date. When did he fill out the questionnaire? Was it when he was booking the flight, or on the day of departure or both? At any rate, he certainly knew he had been exposed when he got on the plane.

He may have believed that he was not placing anyone in danger because he didn't have symptoms yet. However, he did have symptoms for a couple of days before he sought treatment, so he either didn't know or didn't care that he was exposing his relatives.

[cynwoody]

Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days.

Here's a chart from a CDC report, showing the distribution of incubation times across 5,000 patients:

It's interesting that the long tail on the right extends all the way to 25 days. From the link:

The figure above shows the distribution of Ebola virus incubation period, by days of incubation. Data from two sources were used to construct a lognormal probability distribution of being in the incubation state. The mean incubation period derived from this calculation is 6.3 days (standard deviation: 3.31 days), with a median of 5.5 days and a 99th percentile at 21 days.

[thackney]

Thanks for that link.

So from a 2007 and a 2011 data sets, they had different results than what they state for the current info.

I find the post 21 days incubation period the most interesting, given the multiple source of info that 21 days clear is no infection.

I know there are at least 5 different Ebola strains. I don’t know if they have different time periods.

[thackney]

The appendix had a piece of info I have been searching for but unable to find until now.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6303a1.htm?s_cid=su6303a1_w#appendix

An average infectious state of 6 days was assumed in the model, which includes any time taken for a traditional burial. In comparison, data from a 1995 outbreak in DRC and a 2000 outbreak in Uganda (the latter caused by the Sudan strain of Ebola) were used to calculate estimated mean infectious periods of 5.6 and 3.50 days, respectively. Data from the 1995 Ebola outbreak in the Congo also were used to calculate an estimated mean infectious period of approximately 6 days. Repeated testing of patients with Ebola has demonstrated that the amount of virus present increases until death or approximately 6–10 days after initial infection

[TheConservativeParty]

He will vote demoncrat in the November election. Dead or Alive. He will vote.

[Mark17]

He can just implement whatever he deems necessary?

Unfortunately, he has been doing it for years, and the gutless old party hasn't stopped him yet. The worst part is, we still have two more years of this BS.

[smokingfrog]

Hasn’t he suffered enough?

/S

[greeneyes]

Yeh, but now he thinks he can dictate to another country - and he thinks that when he says jump they’ll ask how high?

No wonder his foreign policy has been such a disaster.

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...