playing the part of good Samaritan
米国で初のエボラ熱感染者が出た関連です。ここのgood Samaritanはこれまでも何度か扱いましたが、今一度、その意味を確認してください。Starlightさんの出番です。（Kawada）
Scrutiny in Texas to Detect Whether Ebola Has Spread
Mr. Duncan’s case began with him playing the part of good Samaritan on another continent. Mr. Duncan — a Liberian national in his mid-40s who had come to America to visit relatives in Dallas — had direct contact with a woman stricken by Ebola in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, on Sept. 15, days before he left Liberia for the United States, the woman’s parents and Mr. Duncan’s neighbors said.
The family of the woman, Marthalene Williams, 19, took her by taxi to a hospital with Mr. Duncan’s help after failing to get an ambulance. Ms. Williams was turned away for lack of space in the hospital’s Ebola treatment ward, the family said, and they took her back home in the evening, hours before she died. Mr. Duncan helped carry her because she was no longer able to walk. In the taxi, Ms. Williams, who was seven months pregnant, had been convulsing.
Mr. Duncan flew on Sept. 19 from Monrovia to Brussels, where, according to United Airlines, he took Flight 951 to Washington Dulles Airport and continued to Dallas/Fort Worth on Flight 822, arriving Sept. 20. Here in Dallas, the case was being handled with extraordinary caution and raised widespread concern.
There was no indication of panic among residents in the largely Hispanic and African neighborhood where Mr. Duncan was staying in the Fair Oaks section of the city. But misinformation about how the disease spreads was everywhere, even as local, state and federal health officials continued to make clear that Ebola is not an airborne illness and is not spread through casual contact but through direct contact with the bodily fluids of a sick person.
