It became a headline news on the first of October, 2014 that the deadly Ebola virus has reached the United States of America. It was reported that one Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who allegedly helped convey a Ms. Williams, a sicken Ebola patient to and from the vehicle to her house around the middle of September, flew from Monrovia to Dallas, about a week later, after he abruptly resigned from his job. The alleged patient had claimed to have a son who played baseball in the US, and he requested for his father to join him in the states.
As was reported by Mr. Duncan's half brother, he had developed fever, and was taken to the hospital but was sent back home without any diagnosis made. Not until Eric started vomiting , and his brother called 911, had Mr. Duncan been taken to the hospital, where he was subsequently diagnosed to have been infected with the Ebola virus. Unfortunately, Mr. Duncan had come in close contact with about 80 people, including children before he was certified positive. He is currently quarantined at the Texas Health Presbyterian.
The Liberian authority reported that Mr. Duncan will be persecuted for denying the fact that he came in contact with any Ebola patient in the form which he had to fill at the airport. Unfortunately for the US, and fortunately for Mr. Duncan, he was not tested for fever unlike the other travellers while at the airport.
This story leaves me wondering what might have prompted Duncan to leave Liberia knowing fully well his condition health wise. Most astonishing, why did he deny coming in contact with infected persons?
