Healthy U.S. man in Africa dies after being denied re-entry due to Ebola outbreak

[KamaAina]

http://www.blackyouthproject.com/2014/08/healthy-u-s-man-in-africa-dies-after-being-denied-re-entry-due-to-ebola-outbreak/

A 24-year-old Maryland man has died after being denied re-entry into the United States despite not having the Ebola virus.

Nathaniel Dennis passed away Wednesday morning in Liberia after a week-long coma. His family is blaming the government for the loss of their loved one.

From New Haven Register:

“Ebola shouldn’t have the power to kill people without the disease,” said Hyattsville resident Norwood Dennis IV, 25, his older brother by just 364 days.

Nathaniel Dennis, of Columbia, Maryland, died in Sinkor, Liberia, after testing negative over three days for Ebola. Since he was found comatose last week, his family had been fighting to fly him to Ghana or to the United States to receive attention from a neurologist at a better-equipped facility. But travel restrictions, in place to stop the spread of Ebola, prevented the trip.

[dsc]

1. that is kind of a bizarre headline

I get what they are saying but the headline still is bizarre.

[Louisiana1976]

2. What a sad story.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. In what world is a guy in a coma 'healthy'?

And even if he had been allowed back in the country, exactly why do they assume he would have miraculously been cured of whatever put him in a coma?

[jamzrockz]

9. I am sure they were trying to

say disease free. Its a sad story but I think its one of those cases where its better to be safe than sorry.

[mainer]

4. So if you have a heart attack or stroke or car accident in Africa

we're not letting you, a US citizen, back into your own country? That's really sad. That's how crazy the paranoia has become

[Shrike47]

5. The poor guy was obviously NOT healthy, as he was found at home in a coma one morning.

Maybe an autopsy will explain more.

[Lancero]

6. US brought back two white people infected with Ebola...

But refused to allow a black man, free of the virus, to return.

I've got a feeling that the person who denied his reentry request is a republican.

[kiva]

7. Several of the people responding to the story

indicate that the problem was with restrictions in Liberia, where he was quarantined, rather than the US. It sounds like the family was really focused on getting him to Ghana (not surprising given the distances):

Nathaniel Dennis, 24, suffered a seizure last week and his family had hoped to bring him to Ghana, where hospitals are better equipped to treat patients. But Ghanaian officials would not allow Dennis into the country, fearing that he might bring the ebola virus with him.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/columbia/ph-nathaniel-dennis-liberia,0,4730532.story#ixzz3A8Hk7Cbo

[Michigander_Life]

8. I do not think that word means what you think it means.

[KamaAina]

10. Actually, what the headline writer thinks it means.

Mr. Dennis was not "healthy", but was not infected with Ebola.