A Missouri doctor says the CDC is sugar-coating the Ebola crisis, and he showed up at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport Thursday morning in full protective gear to protest before boarding a flight.

Dr. Gil Mobley checked in and cleared airport security wearing a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a hooded white jumpsuit emblazoned on the back with the words, “CDC is lying!”

“If they’re not lying, they are grossly incompetent,” Mobley told the AJC's John Spink.  Mobley, a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician from Springfield, Missouri said “For them to say last week that the likelihood of importing an Ebola case was extremely small was a real bad call.”

“Once this disease consumes every third world country, as surely it will, because they lack the same basic infrastructure as Sierra Leone and Liberia, at that point, we will be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis,” Mobley predicted. “That will overwhelm any advanced country’s ability to contain the clusters in isolation and quarantine. That spells bad news.”

Mobley graduated from the Medical College of Georgia.  He had an overnight layover after flying to Atlanta from Guatemala on Wednesday.  He believes the CDC is dropping the ball when it comes to screening passengers arriving in the United States from other countries.

“Yesterday, I came through international customs in Atlanta.  “The only question they asked arriving passengers is if they had tobacco or alcohol.”

On Wednesday, the CDC sent a team to the airport in Monrovia, Liberia, where a man began his recent trip from Liberia to the United States, to make sure health officials there are screening passengers properly.  Thomas Duncan is now being treated for a Ebola at a hospital in Dallas, Texas.

“There were no signs of any disease when the gentleman boarded the flight,” said Dr. Tom Kenyon, director of the CDC’s Center for Global Health. “This was not a failure of the screening process at the airport.”

On Wednesday, Customs workers at Hartsfield-Jackson started handed out Ebola information leaflets to passengers holding passports from West African countries.