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The Real Duncan: Why Ebola Transporter lied about contact
Front Page Africa ^ | 10/6/2014 | Rodney D. Sieh

Posted on 10/08/2014 8:14:18 PM PDT by Prospero

“I knew Duncan well. As refugees in Bujumbura Camp we were there hustling to see how we could make it. We were at war back home, so we were like trying to do everything humanly possible to make sure we stay alive to come back home. So when the war ended we began to come home one by one and he came before me. I came in 2011. We met once and that was around the 72nd belt, somewhere around Boulevard Junction and we just waved to each other because I was in a taxi; that’s the last time I saw him. When I saw his photo on Facebook, I was like ‘oh! I know this guy’. “

Duncan’s family in the U.S. has been supportive while denying that he had Ebola prior to entering the U.S., some have even gone as far as to suggest that Duncan took an Ebola test prior to his departure from Liberia, a point Tolbert Nyensuah, Assistant Minister for Curative and Preventive Services at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare debunks. “There was no Ebola test given Mr. Duncan, what he was given at the airport was a temperature test, people should stop confusing the two.”

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpageafricaonline.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: duncan; ebola; liberia; patientzero; texas
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To: ICCtheWay
No VISAS issued period.

Absolutely!

It has to be based on passports, not flights.

All these morons calling for flight bans don't have a clue. Duncan didn't arrive on a flight from Liberia. He arrived on a flight from Brussels!

61 posted on 10/08/2014 11:43:19 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Sherman Logan
>"As far as we know, a person is not contagious during the incubation period"

Apparently we don't know very far.

62 posted on 10/08/2014 11:46:18 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: cynwoody
All these morons calling for flight bans don't have a clue. Duncan didn't arrive on a flight from Liberia. He arrived on a flight from Brussels!

As one of the "morons" who has called for a flight ban, I will point out that I was referring to banning people flying in, directly or indirectly, from a country known to have an active Ebola outbreak. I never thought, for one moment, that anyone could be so thick that this would have to be spelled out for them. I suspect that most calling for "flight bans" are similarly overestimating the ability of some people to apply common sense. I wouldn't call them "morons" however -- merely naive about the lack of astuteness in some readers.
63 posted on 10/08/2014 11:56:07 PM PDT by jjsheridan5 (Remember Mississippi -- leave the GOP plantation)
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To: cynwoody

obama will do nothing to deny visas to West Africans - he will not do anything against his brethren. obama’s minions line the idiot head of the CDC when questioned tried to confuse the idea by saying banning flights from West Africa would keep aid workers from getting there ... HUH?

As a card carrying leftist he deliberately did this to confuse the issue - a red herring to deflect knowing full well one had nothing to do with the other...


64 posted on 10/08/2014 11:56:17 PM PDT by ICCtheWay
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To: Prospero

What can you do to force stoppage of bringing West Africans from the Ebola Hotspots into America — to stop the government from issuing visas to Ebola Hotspot residents ... to stop airlines from flying Ebola Hotspot Residents into the U.S. ?

- Incessantly call/fax/email the corporate headquarters all major International Airlines and tell them point blank that unless they stop transporting residents of West African Ebola Hotspot Residents to America - you will work with an effort to BLACKLIST them along with the efforts of millions of other Americans .. And will contribute to any legal fund to help file lawsuits against them for endangering the American public.

- Incessantly call/fax/email all politicians running for national office - 33 Senate seats up for bid and a large number of House seats... For the Democrats - ridicule them for being obama’s lackeys, lampoon their being dominated by obama’s insane policy of continuing to allow West African Ebola Hotspot Residents into America. Demand of all politicians running for office and those that are not this term... demand that they take definitive action to force the CDC, the State Department and Immigration to cease issuing Visas to Ebola Hotspot Residents... The CDC can issue health advisories insisting that travel by Ebola Hotspot Residents is dangerous to American.


65 posted on 10/09/2014 12:06:14 AM PDT by ICCtheWay
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To: jjsheridan5
Well, there is at least one state governor who used the the "flights" short-hand, who I would support for 2016. But I nevertheless cringed when he said it.

After all, precision is important.

Is Russia visible from your house? Or from your state? (OK — not her, but you get the idea).

66 posted on 10/09/2014 12:06:52 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

Restrict flights for individuals returning from Ebola-stricken countries or traveling under passports issued by them to a limited number of airports equipped to deal with detection, there are five or so I understand. And, quarantine them all for three weeks. Continue doing this until the outbreak burns out.

That’s the only rational way to continue allowing flights containing people who have been in those countries. If that can’t or won’t be implemented then halt entry outright to the extent possible. Certainly no one permitted entry with passports from those countries until “all clear” due to the outbreak burning itself out.


67 posted on 10/09/2014 12:14:01 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: cynwoody

Right now, I would just settle for someone who had the right basic idea. It is sheer insanity to not be curtailing travel from these areas. Even if there is only a 1% chance of a global epidemic (and, unfortunately, it is probably well north of that), such a scenario is so horrendous that you just cannot take that risk. So, I am definitely not as concerned with the use of a short-hand as I am with the echo chamber of people trying to downplay either the chance of this going global, or how bad it would be if it did.

I would reserve the word “morons” not for those who claim that curtailing travel would hamper our efforts to contain this disease — after all, they have their agenda to push, and there own mistakes to cover up, giving them reasons to lie, other than stupidity. I would reserve the word “morons” for those that believe them.


68 posted on 10/09/2014 12:22:45 AM PDT by jjsheridan5 (Remember Mississippi -- leave the GOP plantation)
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To: RegulatorCountry
A three-week shelter-in-place directive in the affected countries might work.

Gather up three weeks' worth of living supplies. If somebody in the family gets sick, there would need to be a number to call.

After three weeks, sound the all-clear.

69 posted on 10/09/2014 12:23:43 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

There are no guarantees of efficacy depending upon another country self-policing in that manner. It has to be controlled on our end. We’re concerned about our own people or certainly should be. You may feel differently.


70 posted on 10/09/2014 12:30:42 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
It has to be controlled on our end.

That's true, given current technology.

But the real solution has to be to defeat the disease in the absolute, be it via effective treatment, vaccines that work, or containment strategies that work.

Let's hope that West Africa is the lab. And remains the lab. Only the lab.

71 posted on 10/09/2014 12:43:33 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Viennacon
I would not be surprised to find direct links from this man to the Obama admin, mysteriously.

Not really pertinent. The important fact is they are letting 100's of Liberians in every week with just a thermometer test. Not to mention we don't know what they've packed in their carry-on.

72 posted on 10/09/2014 2:08:13 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: spokeshave
and the Baptists got $190 MILLION for housing illegal immigrant children.

Are they real Baptists? Or just used the name.

73 posted on 10/09/2014 2:09:36 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: tcrlaf
AND THERE COULD BE MILLIONS MORE, just like him, in the future.

WILL, not COULD, until some critical number of politicians say no more. The big donors don't care, the grass roots is still clueless.

74 posted on 10/09/2014 2:11:43 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: spokeshave; palmer
and the Baptists got $190 MILLION for housing illegal immigrant children.

The charity known as Baptist Children & Family Services has no relationship to the Baptist church. Instead, it is a garden-variety non-profit that is chiefly funded by government grants.

75 posted on 10/09/2014 2:22:33 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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To: jacquej

In his defense, he went to the hospital and he got some medicine and was sent home. Was he told to self-quarantine? Even if he lied about exposure to Ebola, it should have been assumed as a possibility on that flight out of Africa.


76 posted on 10/09/2014 2:24:55 AM PDT by grania
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To: okie01

Thanks for the info.


77 posted on 10/09/2014 2:28:00 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: Prospero

“Running with diarrhea” is never a good idea.


78 posted on 10/09/2014 3:28:13 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: cynwoody

And how are you going to confirm that such a three-week shelter in place directive was followed?

West Africans and those who have traveled there just need to stay out of the US for now.

Read the comments they’ve written to this article and it’s clear they would similarly excuse themselves to fly here if they could.


79 posted on 10/09/2014 3:38:24 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: cynwoody

I hope you’re not attempting to quote Sarah Palin there as an example of someone who spoke of seeing Russia from her house without the requisite precision.


80 posted on 10/09/2014 3:44:12 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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