GLOBAL EYES ON AMERICA! DUNCAN EXPOSED: Face of Liberian Ebola Man in Texas…Virus fully blown few days after in Dallas, Admitted in separate ICU, Feeling Feverish, Bleeding & Why he lives in Ghana
* ‘Settles’ Liberian Airport Security Officials, Board Passengers’ Flight to America
* US Immigration, Health Officials step up Surveillance, Monitoring around victim’s Family, Friends
*Attended E.Jonothan Goodridge High School (Class of 1989) Township Barnesville, Monrovia–INVESTIGATION
*American Embassy Plans Tougher Stringent visa measures for Africans
*US Health CDC warns: “Avoid Non-Essential Travel to Liberia, Sierra Leone & Guinea”
* “U.S. facilities can do Special Isolation in health care infrastructure than any African country”-Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health
* Obama urges Texas Presby’s Hospital to Isolate, give victim First Class Medical Treatment
* “No Plan to ban flights coming from West Africa, passengers thoroughly screened”-White House spokesman Josh Earnest
BY SAMSON SHOAGA/MANAGING EDITOR, TEXAS/KOFI KOJO, SPECIAL INVESTIGATION REPORTER, ACCRA & SAMUEL LOYYD, REPORTER, MONROVIA
AT last, the face of Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian-born man behind the first Ebola virus diagnosis outside of Africa- in United States-precisely Dallas, Texas have been unveiled by our team of crack-reporters and his past has also been dug up regarding his lifestyle, high school days and how he was able to have gone past ‘tight’ Liberian Airport Security officials to have arrived in Dallas, with a fully blown deadly virus which came to the open few days after his contact with innocent-looking five children from four different schools and family members before he was hospitalized.
How Duncan had Ebola virus
Naija Standardinvestigation in Liberia showed that Duncan was a familiar face in the outskirts of Monrovia, Township of Barnesville where he had lots of his youthful friends whom they had studied at E.Jonothan Goodridge High School together. As such, he spends quality time there at his ‘free-time.’
It was gathered that just last month, September, he was told of how one of his friends was terribly sick, treated to a local traditional herbs, unknowing for him that his ‘sick friend’ was suffering from the dreaded Ebola virus. Ignorantly, through fluid contacts in cups, and various needles been used by the herbal practitioner to treat his ‘sick friend’ passed on to him to keep in a safer place, he contacted Ebola virus.
Yet, he had no slight idea, he already contacted Ebola virus (since it takes a maximum gestation of 21 days for the virus to be fully blown open); he thought to himself that it was time to visit United States and enjoy a short vacation.
Duncan had left Liberia on Sept. 19 and arrived in Dallas the following day. On Sept. 26, he sought treatment at the hospital after becoming ill but was sent back to the northeast Dallas apartment complex where he was staying with a prescription for antibiotics. Duncan’s sister, Mai Wureh, said he notified health-care workers that he was visiting from Liberia when they asked for his Social Security number and he told them he didn’t have one. Two days later, he was admitted to the hospital with more critical symptoms, after requiring an ambulance ride.
‘Settles’ Liberian Airport Security Officials, Board Passengers’ Flight to America
Investigation by Naija Standard confirmed that as Duncan passed through security screening at the Liberian Airport, he had no ‘fever sign’ except that he allegedly ‘vomited’ once in the ‘Men’s Restroom’ within the awaiting lounge to board the commercial flight to Texas.
Duncan contact with 5 school innocent children
Naija Standard observed that Duncan, whose condition was upgraded to serious from critical Wednesday, was in contact with at least five children from four schools before he was hospitalized. Superintendent Mike Miles of Dallas Independent Schools reportedly confirmed this by saying “Each of those children have been kept home from school and are under precautionary monitoring.”
Jon Dahlander, Dallas county district spokesman corroborated this when he reportedly said “They are consulting with the county on any additional action that may need to be taken during the course of investigation. This is part of routine emergency operations during a health incident in the county. This is same protocol taken during things like flu and tuberculosis cases.”
As the disease has swept across West Africa, many health experts said it would be only a matter of time before it reached the United States. Hospitals and health departments around the country have been preparing for it, and a number of false alarms have occurred. But this time, the case is real.
The man, who was visiting relatives in the United States, was not ill during the flight, health officials said at a news conference Tuesday evening. Indeed, he was screened before he boarded the flight and had no fever. Because Ebola is not contagious until symptoms develop, there is “zero chance” that the patient infected anyone else on the flight, said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the disease centers. Ebola is spread only by direct contact with body fluids from someone who is ill.
Why he lives in Ghana
Further investigation by Naija Standard showed that Duncan has a girlfriend named ‘Nana Ama’ in Kaneshi, Ghana whom he is so fond of. It was due to his professed affection to this Ghanaian beauty that he decides to continually live in old Gold Coast believing that someday they could eventually be ‘Husband and Wife.’ But, with his Ebola virus, we gathered that Ama had been so sad and because she would not want to be reached by any of her relative; she had gone underground in view of the ‘attendant gossip and shame in African society’ that may accompany her ‘boyfriend’ present situation.
US Govt on West African travelers
John Earnest, White House spokesman said recently “The United States isn’t planning on banning flights coming from the hot zones in West Africa. But once flights land at a U.S. airport from one of those countries, passengers are screened again. And there are facilities available that if an individual is detected exhibiting these symptoms, that they can be quarantined and promptly evaluated by a medical professional.”
Also, the United States President, Barack Obama reportedly made phone call to Texas Presbyterian Hospital on the need to professionally isolate the Ebola victim and ensured he got first class medical treatment.
Ebola Infection Risk on Paramedics
The paramedics who took the patient to the hospital have been isolated, the chief of staff for Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings reportedly said. “They have not shown symptoms of the disease so far. The ambulance that carried the patient — ambulance No. 37 — was in use for two days after the transport but was properly decontaminated”, said Dallas city spokeswoman Sana Syed.
Frieden said the patient himself had a handful of contacts with people after he fell ill and before he was isolated — a period of about four days.
A CDC team arrived in Texas to investigate the people who came in contact with the man. Those people will be monitored for 21 days to see if they develop symptoms. If they do, they’ll be isolated.
In Frieden words: “It is certainly possible that someone who had contact with this individual could develop Ebola in the coming weeks. But there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.”
‘US have best facility for Isolation than African countries’-Dr. Anthony Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health said “For starters, the United States has the luxury of better health care compared to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The U.S. has facilities that can “do the kind of isolation that apparently is very difficult to do within the health care infrastructure in the African countries that we are talking about.”
American Embassy Plans Tougher Stringent visa measures for Africans
Going by the startling revelation to contain any Ebola virus epidemic, our correspondents gathered that internally, plans are being stepped up by Embassy of United States globally to include some stiffer health conditions and stringent measures for Africans intending procuring visiting visas to God’s own country.
