[Britster]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

As a longtime medical worker, I've taken many a class in contagious/infectious disease spread and containment, Lynz, and was one of those who prided themselves on making 100 on the post-class tests every time. I actually read all the materials! But if it's true - and I realize it's not a fully investigated story as none of our Western top notch investigative reporters are highly motivated to visit Liberia and go into the homes near where he lived and ask hard questions - but I know somehow this guy got Ebola, a very hard disease to contract and only transmittable only under very limited circumstances.

I still think that while it was honorable to help another sick person, if he did, it was less than honorable of him, after coming into such close contact with someone so ill that he came into contact with their contagious bodily fluids that he got infected, to then not apparently report that encounter at the airport either spontaneously or in answer to questioning and get onto a plane and fly here where he knew he could get the best of medical care for himself - irrespective of how many he might infect once here, is unconscionable. I hope none of his close contacts contract Ebola and die, especially his own little son.

I'll be praying for this man's life, his family's safety and for the health of anyone else that has come into close contact with him once he was symptomatic and contagious. But if it turns out he knew or should have known, he should be prosecuted for putting others at such dire risk.