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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu Oct 2, 2014, 02:07 PM Oct 2014

Liberia 'to prosecute US Ebola man'

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Source: BBC

The Liberian authorities say they will prosecute the man diagnosed with Ebola in the US, accusing him of lying over his contact with an infected relative.

When he left the country last month, Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan filled in a questionnaire saying that none of his relatives were sick.

But Liberia's assistant health minister said he had taken a sick relative to a clinic in a wheelbarrow.
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"We wish him a speedy recovery; we await his arrival in Liberia" to face prosecution, Binyah Kesselly, the chairman of the board of directors of the Liberia Airport Authority, said.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29467489



I hadn't heard the Ebola vicitm in Liberia described as a 'relative' before, but the daughter of his landlord. Perhaps there was confusion over the language of the questionnaire.
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