A costly lie ....??

 

The Liberian man infected with Ebola who brought the disease to the United States will be prosecuted when he returns home for lying on his airport screening questionnaire, Liberian authorities said.

 

With an Ebola crisis raging in West Africa, passengers leaving Liberia are being screened for fever and are asked if they have had contact with anyone infected. Neighbors say he had days earlier helped carry to a taxi a pregnant woman who later died of Ebola.

 

Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins says his office is considering whether to press charges against Eric Duncan, the first person with Ebola in the U.S.

 

Duncan, who traveled to Dallas to visit relatives, wasn't diagnosed with Ebola until several days after he arrived. The Dallas family he stayed with is under quarantine and their apartment was decontaminated. The range of people under observation is close to 150 but fear is all around us.

We expect people to do the honorable thing," said Kesselly of Liberia Airport Authority. He said that people like Duncan and Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American with Ebola who traveled to Nigeria and infected people there, have brought a "stigma" upon Liberians living abroad.

Just a thought.