The family of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan are venting their outrage that the late Liberian may not have received the same quality of care leading up to his death as the other patients treated in the U.S. for the dreaded virus. Reverend Jesse Jackson who had been by the family’s side told CNN
He got sick and went to the hospital and was turned away, and that’s the turning point here,’
According to Mailonline,when Duncan first went to Texas Presbyterian on September 25, he was sent home with a prescription for antibiotics and was never tested for Ebola, despite telling nurses that he had come from Ebola-stricken Liberia. His enraged cousin told ABC …
“No one has died of Ebola in the U.S. before. This is the first time,”We need all the help we can get.”
Unlike Ebola victims Dr Rick Sacra and NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, Duncan did not receive a transfusion of blood from American Ebola survivor Dr Kent Brantly after he was finally diagnosed. Weeks says doctors told the family ‘that the blood wasn’t a match.’ And unlike Brantly and his fellow missionary Nancy Writebol, Duncan did not receive the ‘miracle’ experimental drug ZMapp, which officials say has completely run out in the United States. Instead, doctors began giving Duncan the experimental antiviral drug brincidovir. The newly approved drug – which was developed not for Ebola but for smallpox and herpes virus came too late. All five have been flown to specially-designed infectious disease wards in Nebraska or Atlanta for treatment by some of the world’s top doctors.
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Posted: at 13-10-2014 06:03 AM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
mrmoore11 at 13-10-2014 07:58 AM (10 years ago) (m)
Racism gini,wetin dey wori these liberians their own na to dey kari d disease waka waka...na so dat 1 carry come naija if not for God naija 4 b like dem
Posted: at 13-10-2014 07:58 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie
daveobahon at 13-10-2014 08:35 AM (10 years ago) (m)
Racism gini,wetin dey wori these liberians their own na to dey kari d disease waka waka...na so dat 1 carry come naija if not for God naija 4 b like dem M SURE U RE JST HEARING ABOUT RACISM U VE NOT EXPERIENCED IT JST PRAY U DNT EXPERINCE IT U GO HATE WHITES WIF PASSION ASK BLACK SOUTH-AFRICANS
Posted: at 13-10-2014 08:35 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Chericoco at 13-10-2014 03:36 PM (10 years ago) (f)
. Duncan brought Ebola to USA and people expected him to get VIP treatment? It's a wake up call to all africans.carry ebola go oyinbo land them go use you do experiment to get cure for ebola. That's why them givam new treatment. Patrick Sawyer caused the dead of many. Hope Duncan case will be different.
Posted: at 13-10-2014 03:36 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
What is stoping African countries from developing? With All the wealth coming from Africa, We shamlessly run to white ppl for Everything, listen! If u divide the problem of white ppl in to 2 nd give Africa 1 part, the whole of Africa Will collapse but it is the hard work of their leaders that Got them Where They Are.
Africa Will remain in its sufferings an embarrassment if its leaders continue to enrich themselves nd owning private Jets Everywhere.
Posted: at 14-10-2014 07:33 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie
Kissme69 at 15-10-2014 01:00 PM (10 years ago) (f)
Quote from: 10shun on 14-10-2014 07:33 AM
What is stoping African countries from developing? With All the wealth coming from Africa, We shamlessly run to white ppl for Everything, listen! If u divide the problem of white ppl in to 2 nd give Africa 1 part, the whole of Africa Will collapse but it is the hard work of their leaders that Got them Where They Are.
Africa Will remain in its sufferings an embarrassment if its leaders continue to enrich themselves nd owning private Jets Everywhere.
Well said GIRL. I totally agree with U.
Posted: at 15-10-2014 01:00 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie
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