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In reply to the discussion: Anyone else irked at the way Texas wants to charge the man with ebola with a crime? [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)where she was turned away due to overcrowding. Even if they thought when taking her to the hospital that it was just some pregnancy complication they certainly knew it was Ebola for being recognized as such if they first took her to a maternity ward and were then told to take her to the Ebola ward. Whatever the case, by the time they were turned away from the hospital they knew she had Ebola.
Mr. Duncan is not a stupid man. He's not some local ignorant villager that thinks illness is witchcraft or something. He had a good job, kept up with the news, knew he had to lie on the questionnaire to the question had he had any physical contact with someone who was ill or he wouldn't get out of the country, etc.
Of course he knew. So did the family members that took the woman to the hospital's Ebola ward and where she was turned away. Furthermore, they would never have taken her to the Ebola ward in the first place if they thought she just had some pregnancy complication... why on earth would they have done that knowing that doing so would mean she'd get it from the other infected Ebola patients in that ward? They either already knew when taking her to the hospital that it was Ebola or they found out at the hospital and were turned away.