The embargoed epidemic continues, apparently, to mutate:
Killeen[, Texas] police are investigating the death of a Fort Hood soldier, who was found dead at his Killeen residence while on emergency leave from Liberia.
The soldier, identified as a 24-year-old black male, returned from the West African country for a non-medical emergency and was self-monitoring for possible Ebola virus symptoms, according to Fort Hood officials.
He was found dead face down in his front yard about 8 this morning. He lived in the 3300 block of Cantabrian Drive, where a hazmat team was on the scene.
Up until the soldier’s death this morning, there was no indication of symptoms, Fort Hood officials said.
The body was found in the front yard of the residence, officials said. An autopsy has been ordered by Justice of the Peace Bill Cooke.
I don't suppose there's any point in wondering why this soldier wasn't in mandatory quarantine. The "honor" system is more than a little loosey-goosey for containing a virulently contagious disease with a majority morbidity rate.
The local medical examiner may be face-down in the next twenty-four hours as well. Ditto everybody with whom his examinee came in contact between Liberia and Killeen. And we know we can't trust whatever
So the bottom line is this: Maybe this soldier died of a new, accelerated strain of ebola, maybe he died from a related complication, and maybe he keeled over for some other reason entirely. But we'll never be told the first two possibilities, regardless of the actual facts.
Elections, as they say, have consequences. But deliberately facilitated spontaneous bodily liquification is not supposed to be one of them.
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