Man with Ebola flew roundabout trip to US (on Brussels, United Airlines)

WFAA ^ | 10/1/14 | David Koenig and Scott Mayerowitz, Associated Press

[jimbo123]

The first reported case of Ebola in the United States is spooking airline investors and raising the prospect that some frightened travelers might stay home despite repeated reassurances from public-health experts.

Details of the man's 28-hour trip from western Africa emerged Wednesday. He flew on two airlines, took three flights, and had lengthy airport layovers before reaching Texas on Sept. 20.

Still, federal officials say other passengers on the flights are at no risk of infection because the man had no symptoms at the time of his trip.

Thomas Eric Duncan left Monrovia, Liberia, on Sept. 19 aboard a Brussels Airlines jet to the Belgian capital, according to a Belgian official. After layover of nearly seven hours, he boarded United Airlines Flight 951 to Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. After another layover of nearly three hours, he then flew Flight 822 from Dulles to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the airline confirmed.

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The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

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ping

[Tax-chick]

One ping with pictures and one without is not better. But I appreciate the effort.

[NormsRevenge]

A swipe to the forehead or a thermometer in your Uhhh,, standard fare at check-in gates soon?

Flying in hazmat suits? Or hefty bags?

[oblomov]

Is it true that no symptoms = no communicability?

I doubt this is true. It doesn’t work that way for other viral illnesses such as influenza.

[willywill]

let’s sat there are people who believe that tim McVeigh was put up to what he did by people who were trying to discredit the right.
then, they might also believe that this guy was put up to spreading ebola around as much a possible to create havoc before the elections.
maybe the October surprise beckel spoke of.

[workerbee]

I think you called this, yes?

[NormsRevenge]

I am perplexed. When we cruise, we always have to sign a form stating our general health, exposure to others who may have been ill and such,. This time, define exposure in the world we live and fly around in,, I see mixed signals out there about the spread and how it may happen. Blood, Fluids, airborne, localized, nasty’

I feel sorry for all those who are subjected to stuff without knowing it. Life is a crap shoot sometimes.

[ClearCase_guy]

I keep think of "Twelve Monkeys", where the medical researcher (who doesn't like humanity very much) books a flight which takes him to pretty much ever densely populated city in the world. As the ticket agent says, "That's quite a trip, sir!"

If you wanted to spread disease, it's the sort of thing you'd do.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[Black Agnes]

I got the subsequent flights out of brussels wrong. He didn’t fly brussels/london/dfw. he flew brussels/dulles/dfw.

Fortunately for the brits.

[Diogenesis]

pRes_ _ent Obola: "If the dhimmis want their Ebola, they can keep it, now."

[Oliviaforever]

“Thomas Eric Duncan left Monrovia, Liberia, on Sept. 19 aboard a Brussels Airlines jet to the Belgian capital, according to a Belgian official. After layover of nearly seven hours, he boarded United Airlines Flight 951 to Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. After another layover of nearly three hours, he then flew Flight 822 from Dulles to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the airline confirmed.”

We will need to ban all flights from Washington D.C.

[justa-hairyape]

Kinda ridiculous since there are over the counter drugs available that will mask symptoms.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Thanks, bro!

[dalebert]

Is this even his real name.

[George from New England]

Finding out now one of my sons flights connected through DFW on Sept 27th.

[jimbo123]

Thomas Duncan flew from Monrovia (ROB) to Brussels (BRU) on Brussels Airlines flight 1247 (SN1247) which departed ROB on Thurs. Sept. 18 and arrived in BRU early moring Fri. Sept. 19. He did not depart BRU until the next day aboard United Airlines flight (UA951) which arrived at Dulles (IAD) the same day. He had a round-trip ticket, which was purchased on Sept. 2 from an IATA accredited travel agency in Lagos, Nigeria. It appears his ticket was purchased by a company named “Silson Global Business Liberia Ltd.”. His return flight was scheduled to depart Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) on Oct. 19. The return flight was scheduled for DFW-IAD-BRU-FNA (FNA is Lungi Intl Airport in Freetown, Sierra Leone).

http://gotnews.com/exclusive-gotnews-com-leaked-flight-info-ebola-dallas-patient/

[UCANSEE2]

Since his sister has an obviously 'foreign' name, I am assuming that he 'changed' his name in his efforts to get into America, i.e. it's the name he used on his visa application. Probably done legally, but I think that it was done.