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In reply to the discussion: What We’re Afraid to Say About Ebola [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)The Nigerian index case, Patrick Sawyer, is a downright bizarre story but suffice it to say whatever he did once arriving in Lagos- reports vary, including some pretty weird stuff at the hospital- he managed to infect a bunch of people before they realized what was going on.
The person who escaped quarantine actually escaped to port harcourt, FROM lagos, and yes he was treated by a doctor who (not doctor who) then became sick, but not before he himself managed to expose a whole bunch of other people, potentially.
Interestingly enough, the doctor died but the quarantine-escaping diplomat recovered, and now may face charges.
Nevertheless, the time window on the port harcourt exposures has been long enough now that we should know pretty soon whether there is another cluster of cases coming in, or not.
This is all assuming that the nigerian authorities are being totally up front, but so far they seem to have done a pretty good job of keeping it contained, despite the above issues.