Liberia will prosecute Duncan for lying on his travel form.

[misterhighwasted]

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]

1. The question is, will they try to extradite him?

"Please, U.S., send an active Ebola patient back to us!"

[morningfog]

3. This looks like a CYA by Liberia. They don't want the US to block flights.

[LondonReign2]

16. You're correct, complete CYA

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]

5. Oh not another !!!

Perry must have put the squeeze on Liberia.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Someone needs to explain to me why a travel ban from countries with an ebola issue

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]

4. I'm with you 100%. It's just the smart thing to do at this point.

[misterhighwasted]

6. Didn't Sierra Leone ban travel in & out of the country?

What Liberia should have done.

[TwilightGardener]

9. I don't know. But regardless of what Liberia does, other countries

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]

20. Yes it will. And political correctness is b.s. in a situation like this.

Those countries should have been all quarantined from the beginning.
Pisses me off.

[JI7]

23. i'm guessing you need most countries to do it for it to work otherwise

they could easily just go to country without a ban and from there enter another country.

[LostInAnomie]

7. It's starting to sound more and more like the US should prosecute...

... him for endangering public safety and a few other things.

[MohRokTah]

8. I gave the guy the benefit of the doubt yesterday.

I can't do that any more.

[snooper2]

10. Maybe he never had plans to return

[uppityperson]

11. hahahahaha. Yup, prosecute someone who is probably dying. I'd like to see that form, see if it was

really his answers or if they are just trying to now cya also.

[kelliekat44]

15. CYA AND economic impact... Liberia has many business interests in the US and lots of Liberian

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]

17. Oh dear, I hadn't considered that. Will there be attacks like there were/are on Sikhs?

Indeed, I wish the best for all involved there, it sounds and looks simply awfully terrible.

[drm604]

12. But did he lie?

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]

14. I wondered about that, too. nt

[seabeyond]

22. i heard the girls parents and this man took infected girl to hospital dealing with ebola and

there was no room so they brought her home.

i think they were well aware she had abola.

[herding cats]

24. That's what I read as well.

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:

Mr. Duncan, the first person to develop symptoms outside Africa during the current epidemic, had direct contact with a woman stricken by Ebola on Sept. 15, just four days before he left Liberia for the United States, the woman’s parents and Mr. Duncan’s neighbors said.

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. Duncan’s 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]

25. thank you for the article. i was not gonna go hunting it down. appreciate it. yes. nt

[kelliekat44]

13. No good deed will go unpunished. For sure. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. Does anyone have any pics of this guy?

Is he old, young, whatever?

[PasadenaTrudy]

19. He's 42 n/t

[misterhighwasted]

21. He has a FB page. News has pics of him.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Duncan+ebola+dallas+pics&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US fficial&client=firefox-a

Pics from google

[TheCowsCameHome]

26. Thanks

I don't do FB, and generally avoid the TV news outlets.

[misterhighwasted]

29. Ya I am not a FB fan either.

I should avoid the TV news more than I do. They lie.

[Avalux]

31. Our local news showed photos of him, and a clip of where his family lives in Dallas.

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]

27. And the plot thickens

nt

[Johonny]

28. Meanwhile the US failed to prosecute all the people that lied us into 2+ wars

But you know not many people died because of those little fibs

[misterhighwasted]

30. Of course they only prosecute when it threatens their bottom line.

buggers..whole sorry lot of them

[kestrel91316]

32. Good. Extradite/deport him. And deport the family members who immediately tried to escape isolation.