That’s sad. I have to admit I couldn’t turn my back on the kid.
How can many be sick? The WHO says that there are 7,000 confirmed cases in West Africa.
With Mercy’s mother dead, neighbors fear it is only a matter of time before she, too, shows signs of the virus, and they want to know which other children may have come into contact with her while she was fetching water.
Pewu Wolobah, a member of the neighborhood anti-Ebola task force, lamented that even as Americans try to trace all of Duncan’s contacts there, the virus is spreading through Duncan’s old neighborhood faster than anyone can keep track.
The aunt of the pregnant victim died on Wednesday after collapsing in her house next door to the Williams home. Her 15-year-old daughter Angela is left behind, along with the pregnant woman’s three younger siblings — Ezo Williams, 16, Tete Williams, 12, and Stanley Williams, 3 — and the family dog.
They told a staff member in a Dallas Hospital they were from Liberia, and they didn’t associate Liberia with Africa. They probably thought it was in the hill country southwest of Waco.
SKD probably stands for Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, Liberia's military dictator from 1980 to 1990.
And, yes this is a very sad situation for the little girl, the others at ground zero and for the people possibly infected by Duncan’s carelessness while knowing he had come in contact with the young woman who had the Ebola virus. So many leaders at the top of many nations are responsible for this cruelty and lack of helping these poor nations through education and modern technologies as they are allowing the terrorist groups to strength.
Would Mr. Duncan have been so helpful if he had known his neighbor had Ebola? He certainly didn’t seem to care about anyone he came into contact with on his way to Dallas.
It’s astounding. The man’s from Ivory Coast. He just has family in Monrovia. Not making excuses for him, mind you. Just remarking on the state of Journalism.
What I do find amazing, and laudable, is that five people tried to help help the pregnant woman who died. I cannot say that if ebola gains a foothold here, I would do the same.
I don’t agree of course with what Duncan did afterward.
I would however happily adopt an Ebola orphan after the quarantine period. Those children currently have have no chance at anything approximating a life.