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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLiberia will prosecute Duncan for lying on his travel form.
Local Dallas news just reporting via Associated Press.
No link yet & no other information as of now
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Here's a link:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/liberia-prosecute-man-brought-ebola-us-25921320
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.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)"Please, U.S., send an active Ebola patient back to us!"
morningfog
(18,115 posts)LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)Doesn't this sentence pretty much exonerate him too? "Her illness at the time was believed to be pregnancy-related." If that was the understanding what, exactly, do they think he should have answered?
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Perry must have put the squeeze on Liberia.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)isn't in the cards. Because I just don't understand it. Had we imposed one when Liberia lost control of its ability to deal with the disease, this guy wouldn't have potentially infected people in Dallas.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)What Liberia should have done.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)should stop accepting travelers from countries with uncontrolled outbreaks, unless it's absolutely necessary travel: pre-approved, well-screened and controlled. This is political correctness run amok, and it's going to kill people unnecessarily.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Those countries should have been all quarantined from the beginning.
Pisses me off.
JI7
(89,279 posts)they could easily just go to country without a ban and from there enter another country.
LostInAnomie
(14,428 posts)... him for endangering public safety and a few other things.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)I can't do that any more.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)really his answers or if they are just trying to now cya also.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)nationals living here...most are really well off financially. They attend the best schools and live in some of the most posh neighborhoods..rural and suburbs. They own lots of property and run many home-health assistance operations. They know full well that an incident like this will severely cut into their economic ventures and limit the number of Liberians who can travel to and from here. I know several ... really nice people but strongly business oriented, which we normally would call a desired trait. All bets are off now as this incident will make many of them more suspect than those who look like they MAY be Muslim or Arabic. I hope and pray for the best for them here and for their country.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Indeed, I wish the best for all involved there, it sounds and looks simply awfully terrible.
drm604
(16,230 posts)If he believed that the illness was pregnancy related, as implied by the article, then he didn't know that he had had contact with an infected person.
I wonder what the exact question is.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)there was no room so they brought her home.
i think they were well aware she had abola.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)The Ebola ward at the hospital was full so the put her back into a taxi and brought her home where she died later that night.
On edit:
In a pattern often seen here in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, the family of the woman, Marthalene Williams, 19, took her by taxi to a hospital with Mr. Duncans help on Sept. 15 after failing to get an ambulance, said her parents, Emmanuel and Amie Williams. She was convulsing and seven months pregnant, they said.
Turned away from a hospital for lack of space in its Ebola treatment ward, the family said it took Ms. Williams back home in the evening, and that she died hours later, around 3 a.m.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/world/africa/ebola-victim-texas-thomas-eric-duncan.html
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Is he old, young, whatever?
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Pics from google
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)I don't do FB, and generally avoid the TV news outlets.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)I should avoid the TV news more than I do. They lie.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)He's 42, and was wearing an orange shirt. The family is clearly lower income, if not poverty level; live in an apartment. I am not so sure he knew the pregnant woman he helped had Ebola, and that he may have it too. Ignorance is rampant among the population in the hot zones.
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)nt
Johonny
(20,913 posts)But you know not many people died because of those little fibs
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)buggers..whole sorry lot of them