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[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 [b]why would his nephew suspect he had Ebola when it never ever crossed anyone else's mind? [/b]

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]

The nephew became concerned *after* his uncle started to develop symptoms that could be consistent with Ebola.  If I knew someone who had just travelled here from Liberia and was feeling ill with fever and stomach pains, I'd worry about the same thing.  That says nothing about whether or not Duncan knew he had been exposed before leaving Liberia.[/quote]

Yes, you'd worry about them and tell them too, right?  [/quote]

Sure, but that's not the issue.  The issue is whether or not he believed he'd been exposed before he left Liberia and before he had symptoms.  
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