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Patrick Sawyer, Was “terribly Ill”, Possibly Knew He Had Ebola Before Traveling by nwaobitex: 9:23am On Aug 07, 2014
Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian man who brought the Ebola virus into Nigerian, looked “terribly ill” and might have known he was infected with the virus before traveling to Nigeria, the Liberian media is reporting.
According to a review of Close Circuit Television (CCTV) images at the James Spriggs Payne’s Airport, Monrovia, by Liberian newspaper, The New Dawn, Mr. Sawyer, also a naturalised American, looked terribly ill and deliberately avoided contacts with people just before boarding the Asky Airline flight that brought him to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
Describing his behaviour as “strange”, the The New Dawn said Mr. Sawyer bore a “sad countenance” like he was troubled and sat alone avoiding bodily contact with other passengers who came close to him at the boarding gate of the James Sprigg Payne’s Airport as he awaits his flight to Lagos.
According to Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Jide Idris, Mr Sawyer who was a consultant for the Liberian Ministry of Finance, arrived Lagos on July 23 to attend an ECOWAS convention in Calabar. He became terribly ill on the airplane just before it touched down in Lagos.
Some ECOWAS officials and airport staff helped him out of the airplane and rushed him to First Consultant Medical Centre, Obalende, where he died two days later.
“His strange behaviour and frequent movement up and down as he eagerly awaits his Asky flight had prompted the security camera operator to focus on him. In the video, Patrick could be seen avoiding physical contacts with airport employees and other passengers during the check in process,” the newspaper wrote.
Airport video footage, according to the report, also showed Mr. Sawyer lying flat on his stomach on the floor in the corridor of the airport and seemed to be in “excruciating pain.”
The footage showed Mr. Sawyer preventing people from touching him.
According to the The New Dawn reporter who reviewed the video, he even snubbed an Immigration officer who initiated a friendly gesture of a handshake moments before he boarded the airplane.
FrontPage Africa, another Liberian newspaper, is also reporting that Mr. Sawyer, who is believed to have been infected by his sister who died of Ebola told its reporter soon before he travelled to Nigeria that he had gone in search of his sister’s husband who ran away after she tested positive for Ebola.
The paper said Mr. Sawyer vomited a few times among his friends in Liberian just before heading to the airport and also on the plane.
FrontPage Africa’s publisher, Rodney Sieh, later told PREMIUM TIMES by telephone from the Liberian capital, Monrovia, that his paper’s extensive reporting on the matter showed clearly Mr. Sawyer knew he had contacted the Ebola virus before travelling to Nigeria.
“He definitely knew he was sick and it was curious that he still decided to travel,” Mr. Sieh said. His sister had died from the virus and he most likely had contact with her.”
Rage and disruptive behaviour
According to FrontPage Africa, after Mr. Sawyer became ill on the airplane; he denied to First Consultant’s personnel that he had contact with anyone infected with Ebola despite repeated inquiries after initial tests for Malaria and HIV were negative.
The newspaper said Mr. Sawyer however went into a rage and behaved in a disruptive manner at First Consultant Medical Centre after he was told he tested positive to Ebola.
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Re: Patrick Sawyer, Was “terribly Ill”, Possibly Knew He Had Ebola Before Traveling by Feedmemore(f): 9:31am On Aug 07, 2014
This is very sad, he deliberately came to Nigeria to infect us with Ebola. Only God will judge him, i don't want say anything bad, cuz he is already gone.

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Re: Patrick Sawyer, Was “terribly Ill”, Possibly Knew He Had Ebola Before Traveling by Caseless: 10:00am On Aug 07, 2014
Feedmemore: This is very sad, he deliberately came to Nigeria to infect us with Ebola. Only God will judge him, i don't want say anything bad, cuz he is already gone.
my religion does permit me to speak ill of d dead, but man was a heartless man. He knew how difficult it is for us to control any outbreak of anything in nigeria, he decided to come and add this(ebola) to insurgency (boko haram) that's put all of us on our toes. And i also blame the liberian authority for this deadly importation to Nigeria. They knew how severe the outbreak is in Liberia, yet they allowed people to travel out of liberia without being tested at d airport for this disease. We helped them to restore peace to their country and, this is how they decided to pay us back. No wahala!
And our less reactive gov't shld have banned all flights from the affected countries since the report of the first cases;this they didn't do and here we're begging for 'un-experinmented drugs/secret serum'.
that bastard called patrick sawyer can go to hell for all i care cos he intentionally did this to harm Nigerians.
Re: Patrick Sawyer, Was “terribly Ill”, Possibly Knew He Had Ebola Before Traveling by Nobody: 10:10am On Aug 07, 2014
he knew he was infected, because his sister in liberia died of ebola in july 7. Some of his sister's blood stained his shirt when she was bleeding profusely... the guy knew he was infected - he just stubbornly refused to accept the fact that he had the ebola virus!
Re: Patrick Sawyer, Was “terribly Ill”, Possibly Knew He Had Ebola Before Traveling by Nobody: 11:07am On Aug 07, 2014
He had probably read and was emboldened by this thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/1846519/what-bible-say-ebola-virus#25290038

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