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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan told his fiancee the day he was diagnosed last week that he regrets exposing her to the deadly virus and had he known he was carrying Ebola, he would have “preferred to stay in Liberia and died than bring this to you,” a family friend said.

“He apologized to Louise the day they told him what he had,” said Saymendy Lloyd, a close friend of Louise Troh, the fiancee of Duncan, who is in critical condition and no longer responsive. “He told her, ‘I’m so sorry all of this is happening. .?.?. I would not put the love of my life in danger.’ ”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-patient-in-dallas-rues-bringing-virus-to-love-of-my-life/2014/10/07/a1eb8ba8-4e55-11e4-babe-e91da079cb8a_story.html[/quote]

Not really buying it, given the state of Liberia worh Ebola. [/quote]

If he really believed he'd been exposed to Ebola (which I don't buy) he could have still come to the US but quarantined himself from his family.  The fact that he didn't seems telling.[/quote]

But why?  It's so hard to actually get here in the US.  Why would he quarantine himself?

And why would his nephew suspect he had Ebola when it never ever crossed anyone else's mind?

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-ebola-nephew-sought-cdc-help-story.html[i]Weeks said he suspected his uncle had contracted the Ebola virus in Liberia before flying to Dallas last month, his first trip to the United States, to attend his son’s school graduation. [/i][/quote]

Weeks was probably closely following the situation in Liberia (as some of us here have been).  When someone arrives from Liberia and has a fever, vomiting, and abdominal pain such that they go to a hospital, my first fear would be Ebola.  That seems to be what happened here.

Imagine if you went to the hospital with those symptoms and they sent you home with antibiotics.  Would that be good care for what is most likely a virus?  If you had recently been in West Africa, wouldn't that be very poor care?  Calling the CDC was a great decision by Weeks.[/quote]

I agree it was a great decision by Weeks.  This guy was like a brother to Duncan - you don't think he's passing along information?  Concerned for him?  Telling him what he knows from here?  
[b]I wish he would have called the CDC when the plane landed in the US. [/b] 
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This makes no sense.  Weeks didn't suspect Ebola until after the uncle began exhibiting symptoms, which was 4-5 days after his plane landed.[/quote]

Good point.   However, since they're so close and keeping in touch I'm sure Duncan's telling him of the perplexing deaths in his own home and Weeks has to know he's been at the least exposed.  [/quote]

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