Fresh facts have emerged in the case of a Liberian national,
Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with the deadly
Ebola virus in the United States.
The United Airlines yesterday confirmed that Duncan flew into Dallas on its Flight 951 from Brussels to Washington’s Dulles International Airport and then connected to its Flight 822 to Dallas on 20th September, 2014.
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pointed out that there is no risk of passengers on the plane getting the virus as he had not started showing symptoms until several days ago after his trip.
Meanwhile, Liberian authorities have said they will prosecute him for
lying over his contact with an infected person, BBC reports.
The prosecution announcement was made at the weekly Ebola update news conference, which is attended by numerous government officials and was dominated by the case of Mr Duncan.
“We wish him a speedy recovery; we await his arrival in Liberia” to face prosecution, Binyah Kesselly, the chairman of the board of directors of the Liberia Airport Authority, said.
Before leaving the country last month, Duncan had filled in an Ebola form where he answered ‘No’ to a question about whether he had touched the body of someone who died in an area affected by the disease.
But Duncan is alleged to have taken a sick relative to a clinic in a wheelbarrow and, according to report, this is banned, and people are obliged to phone a hotline number to ensure that patients are collected by health workers, so further contact with sick people is avoided.
Mr Duncan, who is the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed on U.S. soil, is said to be in a serious condition in a Dallas hospital.
About a 100 people are being checked for exposure to the deadly virus.
Following the current panic in America over the reported outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Dallas, Texas, the United States government reportedly sent medical experts to Nigeria to study how the country was able to quickly halt the spread of EVD.
More than 3,100 people have died in Ebola outbreak in West Africa, according to World Health Organization, WHO.
Ebola is spread through direct contact with blood or bodily fluids of an infected person and the virus has no known cure.
The United Airlines yesterday confirmed that Duncan flew into Dallas on its Flight 951 from Brussels to Washington’s Dulles International Airport and then connected to its Flight 822 to Dallas on 20th September, 2014.
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pointed out that there is no risk of passengers on the plane getting the virus as he had not started showing symptoms until several days ago after his trip.
Thomas Duncan
The prosecution announcement was made at the weekly Ebola update news conference, which is attended by numerous government officials and was dominated by the case of Mr Duncan.
“We wish him a speedy recovery; we await his arrival in Liberia” to face prosecution, Binyah Kesselly, the chairman of the board of directors of the Liberia Airport Authority, said.
Before leaving the country last month, Duncan had filled in an Ebola form where he answered ‘No’ to a question about whether he had touched the body of someone who died in an area affected by the disease.
But Duncan is alleged to have taken a sick relative to a clinic in a wheelbarrow and, according to report, this is banned, and people are obliged to phone a hotline number to ensure that patients are collected by health workers, so further contact with sick people is avoided.
Mr Duncan, who is the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed on U.S. soil, is said to be in a serious condition in a Dallas hospital.
About a 100 people are being checked for exposure to the deadly virus.
Following the current panic in America over the reported outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Dallas, Texas, the United States government reportedly sent medical experts to Nigeria to study how the country was able to quickly halt the spread of EVD.
More than 3,100 people have died in Ebola outbreak in West Africa, according to World Health Organization, WHO.
Ebola is spread through direct contact with blood or bodily fluids of an infected person and the virus has no known cure.
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