Ebola? US Air Marshal assaulted in Nigeria with syringe then boards flight to Houston

[Lucas Daniel Smith]

Ebola?

U.S. Air Marshall assaulted at airport (Lagos, Nigeria) with syringe filled with unknown substance and then boards flight to Houston, Texas.

See the following sources -

KPRC Channel 2 News - Houston, Texas:

September 8th 2014

Air marshal stabbed with needle in Nigerian airport, flies to Houston

The Washington Times:

September 9th 2014

U.S. air marshal assaulted in Nigeria with filled syringe

The Blaze:

September 9th 2014

Federal Air Marshal Attacked in Nigeria With Needle Containing Unknown Substance

[Lucas Daniel Smith]

The Washington Post:

September 9th 2014

More than 400 under surveillance for Ebola in Nigeria’s ‘oil city’

Excerpt:

The Nigerian Ministry of Health announced on Monday that 477 people are under surveillance for Ebola in the oil city of Port Harcourt.

Until recently the outbreak in Nigeria was almost completely confined to Lagos, where the first case of Ebola was brought by a Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, who died days after arriving in the airport in July.

[Lucas Daniel Smith]

The Washington Post:

September 9th 2014

FBI: Air marshal attacked with syringe in Nigeria

Excerpt:

Joseph Gutheinz, a former special agent with both the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General and the FAA’s Civil Aviation Security division, said the air marshal should have instead been quarantined in Nigeria until authorities had a better idea of what was in the syringe.

“The idea of a possibly infected person flying on a commercial flight is bizarre to me,” said Gutheinz, who now works as a Houston-area attorney. “There are a lot of questions unanswered here. My focus is what procedures are they following, if any.”




The Washington Post:

September 9th 2014

U.S. air marshal boarded flight to U.S. after syringe attack in Nigerian airport

Excerpt:

The World Health Organization announced Tuesday that West Africa has more than 4,000 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola. The virus is mostly concentrated in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, with just 21 of those cases in Nigeria. But officials in Nigeria are cautious about the epidemic within their borders; this week, the country’s health ministry announced 477 people in the oil city of Port Harcourt are under surveillance for Ebola.

[Lucas Daniel Smith]

The Washington Post:

September 9th 2014

Nigerian agency: Video doesn’t show syringe attack

Excerpt:

Nigerian aviation officials say a preliminary review of security video shows no evidence that a U.S. air marshal was stabbed with a syringe at the airport in Lagos (LAY’-gohs).

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria reported Wednesday that its officials and U.S. Embassy personnel have reviewed the security footage. The video shows the U.S. air marshal’s movement on Sunday.