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Arthurgray50@blu 16-10-2014 16:13
UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
http://news.sky.com/story/1353997/uk...t-three-months

We now hear that there is a reported Ebola illness in France. I can see this illness coming to our shores within weeks NOT months.

Its true what Bob Geldoff has said that 'we' have been so slow with this terrible virus.

All you need is someone to get off the plane at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted even London City, with this and bingo.

Airports have been very slow to check on this. The Health Minister has said that we will cope - we are talking about a deadly virus, with no known cure

We are also forgetting the biggest problem that UK shore face - illegal immigrants (not having a dig here) coming via Lorries, under the Channel Tunnel. We already know about the camps sites in Calais.

It just needs ONE of them to get the virus, gets into the UK - and that's it.

I feel that the UK has to close all its doors until this virus is clear and that we have a drug that can kill it, before it hits our shores.

Derek 16-10-2014 16:25
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
Quite aside from Ebola being fairly difficult to catch in comparison to other diseases how would we cope by cutting ourselves off from the world?

I'm pretty sure we import a significant chunk of the food consumed here and people will still need to eat.

heero_yuy 16-10-2014 17:50
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
The planet is well overdue something that will cull the human infestation. Perhaps that time has come...

Hugh 16-10-2014 18:50
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
The last epidemic panic we had was in 2009, when Swine Flu was forecast to decimate the planet.

In fact, in the 209'countries that reported cases, there were around 14,000 deaths - by comparison, more people died of Bronchitis and Emphysema in the UK alone that year.

Take the advice on the cover of the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy....

alferret 16-10-2014 19:18
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35735706)
http://news.sky.com/story/1353997/uk...t-three-months

We now hear that there is a reported Ebola illness in France. I can see this illness coming to our shores within weeks NOT months.

Its true what Bob Geldoff has said that 'we' have been so slow with this terrible virus.

All you need is someone to get off the plane at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted even London City, with this and bingo.

Airports have been very slow to check on this. The Health Minister has said that we will cope - we are talking about a deadly virus, with no known cure

We are also forgetting the biggest problem that UK shore face - illegal immigrants (not having a dig here) coming via Lorries, under the Channel Tunnel. We already know about the camps sites in Calais.

It just needs ONE of them to get the virus, gets into the UK - and that's it.

I feel that the UK has to close all its doors until this virus is clear and that we have a drug that can kill it, before it hits our shores.
Doom and gloom Arthur, doom and gloom.

papa smurf 16-10-2014 19:19
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35735737)
The last epidemic panic we had was in 2009, when Swine Flu was forecast to decimate the planet.

In fact, in the 209'countries that reported cases, there were around 14,000 deaths - by comparison, more people died of Bronchitis and Emphysema in the UK alone that year.

Take the advice on the cover of the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy....
or read some poetry

Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturitions are to me,
As plurdled gabbleblotchits,
On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles,
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. [drowned out by moaning and screaming]
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and slipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turling dromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't.:)

denphone 16-10-2014 19:20
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35735718)
The planet is well overdue something that will cull the human infestation. Perhaps that time has come...
You never know that it might be your number that's up next old boy.;):D

Ignitionnet 16-10-2014 20:01
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35735706)
http://news.sky.com/story/1353997/uk...t-three-months

We now hear that there is a reported Ebola illness in France. I can see this illness coming to our shores within weeks NOT months.

Its true what Bob Geldoff has said that 'we' have been so slow with this terrible virus.

All you need is someone to get off the plane at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted even London City, with this and bingo.

Airports have been very slow to check on this. The Health Minister has said that we will cope - we are talking about a deadly virus, with no known cure

We are also forgetting the biggest problem that UK shore face - illegal immigrants (not having a dig here) coming via Lorries, under the Channel Tunnel. We already know about the camps sites in Calais.

It just needs ONE of them to get the virus, gets into the UK - and that's it.

I feel that the UK has to close all its doors until this virus is clear and that we have a drug that can kill it, before it hits our shores.
Ebola isn't airborne. It's fine, even when it does reach the UK, which it absolutely will.

It is deadly, however it is not especially infectious and it's only infectious when symptoms show, it doesn't have a long incubation period where a carrier is infectious.

Chill. There are a ton of things far more likely to kill you than Ebola, unless you're planning on licking the bed sheets of, or having intimate contact with a sufferer.

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martyh 16-10-2014 20:04
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
He's working himself up to blame the tories

Osem 16-10-2014 20:52
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35735760)
He's working himself up to blame the tories
:rofl:

djfunkdup 16-10-2014 20:58
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
Yea it's getting worrying if you watch the news too much :erm:

it's either Ebola or ISIS that's going to get us in the end, :shocked::shocked::shocked: it's very confusing ,not sure whether i should have a baseball bat at the side of my bed or a surgical mask :erm:

RizzyKing 16-10-2014 21:46
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Typical media hyping up something, i managed to survive the great swine flu extinction event of 2009 pretty sure i'll survive end of the world ebola 2014 seriously of all the things to worry about this isn't high on my list at the minute. If in a few months i switch on the tv and were burning bodies en masse i might get as worked up as you are Arthur.

Russ 16-10-2014 22:16
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35735758)
Ebola isn't airborne.
I heard someone talking about this yesterday - as it's (apparently) only transmitted via bodily fluids, surely if a carrier coughs or sneezes they're sending the virus airborne, albeit temporarily?

Damien 16-10-2014 22:25
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35735811)
I heard someone talking about this yesterday - as it's (apparently) only transmitted via bodily fluids, surely if a carrier coughs or sneezes they're sending the virus airborne, albeit temporarily?
Yeah but then it would need to find a way into someone. I guess if you then got something on your hands and eat something, touched your face etc then maybe but I am not sure how much of the virus is required to successful gain a foothold in someone's system. I imagine not too much other these health workers wouldn't have caught it.

TheDaddy 17-10-2014 05:54
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Derek (Post 35735708)
Quite aside from Ebola being fairly difficult to catch in comparison to other diseases how would we cope by cutting ourselves off from the world?

I'm pretty sure we import a significant chunk of the food consumed here and people will still need to eat.
We could start by having the baggage handlers at airports actually chuck out the bags coming in from Africa dripping blood, we don't need anyone eating that crap no matter how much of a delicacy it's considered elsewhere.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35735737)
The last epidemic panic we had was in 2009, when Swine Flu was forecast to decimate the planet.

In fact, in the 209'countries that reported cases, there were around 14,000 deaths - by comparison, more people died of Bronchitis and Emphysema in the UK alone that year.

Take the advice on the cover of the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy....
Seems to me it stands to reason one of them will go epidemic then, let's not forget duck flu did decimate the planet around 100 years ago

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35735813)
Yeah but then it would need to find a way into someone. I guess if you then got something on your hands and eat something, touched your face etc then maybe but I am not sure how much of the virus is required to successful gain a foothold in someone's system. I imagine not too much other these health workers wouldn't have caught it.
I believe it can get in through the skin, not entirely sure though and can't remember.where I heard it but if true any contact with a carrier could be enough

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35735811)
I heard someone talking about this yesterday - as it's (apparently) only transmitted via bodily fluids, surely if a carrier coughs or sneezes they're sending the virus airborne, albeit temporarily?
I don't think that's what's meant by airborne, they have to sneeze directly on you to get infected, the virus can't float about in the air looking for a host

Ignitionnet 17-10-2014 08:35
Re: Ebola - we have no hope
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35735811)
I heard someone talking about this yesterday - as it's (apparently) only transmitted via bodily fluids, surely if a carrier coughs or sneezes they're sending the virus airborne, albeit temporarily?
Quote:
Originally Posted by http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html
Can Ebola spread by coughing? By sneezing?
Unlike respiratory illnesses like measles or chickenpox, which can be transmitted by virus particles that remain suspended in the air after an infected person coughs or sneezes, Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with body fluids of a person who has symptoms of Ebola disease. Although coughing and sneezing are not common symptoms of Ebola, if a symptomatic patient with Ebola coughs or sneezes on someone, and saliva or mucus come into contact with that person’s eyes, nose or mouth, these fluids may transmit the disease.

What does “direct contact” mean?
Direct contact means that body fluids (blood, saliva, mucus, vomit, urine, or feces) from an infected person (alive or dead) have touched someone’s eyes, nose, or mouth or an open cut, wound, or abrasion.


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Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35735830)
Through the skin, not entirely sure though and can't remember.where I heard it but if true any contact with a carrier could be enough
Only broken skin. An open cut. It can't diffuse through skin tissue.

jonbxx 17-10-2014 08:51
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
The viral load or a patient with Ebola in the three week or so incubation period is very low to the point where the WHO does not consider patients are contagious. Once the patient starts showing symptoms, the risk of spreading the disease goes up but even then, the risk is low when the patient is at the stage where they are able to do things like walk and talk!

alferret 17-10-2014 10:41
It's the end of the world as we know it!
It's all Maggie's fault, the rich Tories have a vaccination the poor just die.
Wouldn't have happened on labour's watch, they would have just sent the armed forces in and kill innocent people, just like Blair did back in the day.

Hugh 17-10-2014 18:18
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Some perspective - in the last month in the USA, one person has died of Ebola, and two others have caught it and are in a stable condition; in the same time period, over 1,600 people have been killed by guns.....

Ignitionnet 18-10-2014 13:18
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Having read something moments before about how Ebola is a preview to the end of days and various other apocalyptic biblical stuff with the end result being that prayer will solve everything, my own fault for reading the comments section on a National Geographic story, this made me laugh.

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Russ 19-10-2014 13:54
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
UK screening is going as well as expected:

http://news.sky.com/video/1355224/no...can-passengers

Osem 20-10-2014 09:16
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Hopsitals aside, I'd have thought our inner city schools, particularly, might prove problematic. I wonder what plans there are in the event that kids who've travelled to high risk areas (or been exposed to people who have) over Christmas for example show signs of fever etc. The flu season is on its way so how easy is it to differentiate between early ebola symptoms and flu for example?

Taf 20-10-2014 12:42
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35736406)
....how easy is it to differentiate between early ebola symptoms and flu for example?
Not at all possible I understand, hence I was disturbed to find that our local GP only allowed a total of 105 minutes for flu jab sessions. :shocked:

A flu jab this year is possibly going to be the best investment anyone could make this year.

All cases of Ebola that are found in Wales are going to be moved to London as the local hospitals say they could not cope with flu and Ebola at the same time!

Damien 20-10-2014 12:48
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Taf (Post 35736444)
All cases of Ebola that are found in Wales are going to be moved to London as the local hospitals say they could not cope with flu and Ebola at the same time!
Weird. Really all the cases should be moved to Wales and then the border closed. :erm:
















What?

Osem 20-10-2014 13:14
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Taf (Post 35736444)
Not at all possible I understand, hence I was disturbed to find that our local GP only allowed a total of 105 minutes for flu jab sessions. :shocked:

A flu jab this year is possibly going to be the best investment anyone could make this year.

All cases of Ebola that are found in Wales are going to be moved to London as the local hospitals say they could not cope with flu and Ebola at the same time!
I thought the NHS in Wales was safe in Labour's hands... :rolleyes: ;)

Russ 20-10-2014 13:26
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35736448)
Weird. Really all the cases should be moved to Wales and then the border closed. :erm:
No chance, we've been trying to close the border for years :D

But seriously, this is the sort of thing the Swine Flu trial run a few years back was set up for.

Taf 24-10-2014 19:46
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Whilst we worry about ebola, things have not been quiet in Europe:

Quote:
Fourth Case of Autochthonous Dengue Fever Detected in France

Oct 6 The French health authorities today revealed the detection of a case of autochthonous dengue in the commune of Aubagne, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d''Azur, the fourth recorded in the country this year.

The disease causes high fever, headache, joint and abdominal pain and dengue hemorrhagic fever can be fatal.

Specialists define a dengue case as autochthonous when the person has not traveled in the last 15 days to any country, from which it follows that the disease was contracted on the mainland.

The transmitter of the virus is the Mosquito Aedes Aegypti, established for many years in the French overseas departments and discovered a decade ago in the continental territory, mainly in the Southeast.
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o...44381&Itemid=1

Quote:
Four people are infected with chikungunya virus in Montpellier, France from local mosquitoes
Bad translation: http://translate.google.com/translat...ue-575528.html

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Plus African swine fever is spreading across western Russia and north-eastern states.

Derek 29-12-2014 18:57
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
And sneaking in before the new year is the UKs first case that's just been confirmed in Glasgow.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30628349

Quote:
A healthcare worker who recently returned from West Africa has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in hospital in Glasgow.
The Scottish government confirmed the patient was at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital.

Arthurgray50@blu 29-12-2014 19:31
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
The sad thing is that, the patient may be transferred to London

Pierre 29-12-2014 19:33
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35749428)
The sad thing is that, the patient may be transferred to London
Why would that be sad?

dilli-theclaw 29-12-2014 19:44
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35749428)
The sad thing is that, the patient may be transferred to London
If that's the best place for their treatment lets hope it happens ASAP.

edit from the bbc new link

"The woman will be transferred to specialist high level isolation in London as soon as possible."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30628349

dilli-theclaw 30-12-2014 08:04
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Got the news on. Looks like she's just arrived, hope she gets better.

Ignitionnet 31-12-2014 19:42
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35749428)
The sad thing is that, the patient may be transferred to London
Although at times when everything goes wrong you'd be forgiven for wondering we are not a third world nation, we are an advanced nation that can handle far more infectious diseases than Ebola.

Be assured that the precautions that have been taken are way in excess of what Ebola's infectiousness merits and the chances of the patient infecting anyone in London are vanishingly small.

richard s 01-01-2015 16:03
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
The good aid people that are working in the infected countries should be in quarantine for three weeks before flying back to their native countries!

Taf 01-01-2015 17:06
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by richard s (Post 35749765)
The good aid people that are working in the infected countries should be in quarantine for three weeks before flying back to their native countries!
Too true, and on their return too. It sounds harsh, but so would a major outbreak. The NHS can't even cope with a bit of Winter-vomiting bug or a rise in the number of cases of 'flu.

Moving that sick nurse from Scotland to England because Scotland does not have the "facilities" is a big warning to us too!

Hom3r 01-01-2015 19:41
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Send that dumb bitch, Katie Hopkins to look after them.

Osem 03-01-2015 16:40
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
A British nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola after returning from Sierra Leone is now in a critical condition, the London hospital treating her has said.

The Royal Free Hospital said it was "sorry to announce that the condition of Pauline Cafferkey has gradually deteriorated over the past two days".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30666265

This is very bad and sad news.

richard s 04-01-2015 14:22
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
How did she contract the virus with all that protective gear on and cleaning protocols in place. Hope she makes a recovery.

Derek 24-01-2015 18:12
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Some good news for a change.

Quote:
UK nurse Pauline Cafferkey has said she is "very happy to be alive", having been discharged from hospital after making a full recovery from Ebola.
Speaking to the BBC in her first broadcast interview, Ms Cafferkey, 39, admitted she had felt like "giving up" as her condition became critical.
She said she was now looking forward to returning to "normal life" and had no current plans to return to West Africa.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30967337

Osem 24-01-2015 19:35
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Great news! :tu:

Damien 24-01-2015 19:45
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Go medical team :tu:

MalteseFalcon 24-01-2015 20:16
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Pleased for the family, but if she chooses to go back to Sierra Leone and contracts it again, I hope the NHS refuses to treat her.

Ignitionnet 24-01-2015 20:37
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkC1984 (Post 35754973)
Pleased for the family, but if she chooses to go back to Sierra Leone and contracts it again, I hope the NHS refuses to treat her.
She can't catch it again, at least for a while. Her body will be carrying antibodies to the strain she survived hence she'll kick it in the hindmost before it can do anything to her.

A different strain is a different matter but this outbreak she should be all good.

EDIT: Actually her blood could be used as a potential treatment - she received plasma from a survivor of the strain which contained his antibodies.

Mr Banana 24-01-2015 20:47
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35749428)
The sad thing is that, the patient may be transferred to London
Looks like she has made a full recovery Arthur, with no impact on you and London.

Anything to say? No, I thought not.

Hugh 24-01-2015 22:38
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkC1984 (Post 35754973)
Pleased for the family, but if she chooses to go back to Sierra Leone and contracts it again, I hope the NHS refuses to treat her.
So, do you feel the same way about our Armed Forces personnel who are over there at the moment - if they contract it, should the NHS refuse to treat them?

MalteseFalcon 24-01-2015 23:51
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To prevent it spreading to this country, yes they should be refused. Might sound callous to other people, but I would rather any and all measures are taken to make sure that Ebola doesn't make it to this country. If you are stupid enough to volunteer in a place like that, then you deserve everything you get.

Like I say, might sound callous but I value my life more than other people's, especially if they have the potential to spread a life threatening disease around.

Mr Banana 25-01-2015 07:52
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkC1984 (Post 35755019)
To prevent it spreading to this country, yes they should be refused. Might sound callous to other people, but I would rather any and all measures are taken to make sure that Ebola doesn't make it to this country. If you are stupid enough to volunteer in a place like that, then you deserve everything you get.

Like I say, might sound callous but I value my life more than other people's, especially if they have the potential to spread a life threatening disease around.
The army hasn't volunteered as far as I am aware. Yes it does sound callous, they are there to stop it spreading around the world, I take it you would rather them die there, rather than come home and get the fantastic medical care that Londons specialists can offer?

Your comment "if you are stupid enough to volunteer in a place like that, then you deserve everything you get" thankfully not everyone thinks like you or we would be deep in the mire.

Derek 25-01-2015 08:31
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkC1984 (Post 35755019)
If you are stupid enough to volunteer in a place like that, then you deserve everything you get.
Wow. Winner of most compassionate person 2015 right here.

I suppose we should set up air defences, concrete up the channel tunnel and deploy the Sharks with laser cannons to stop ships just to make sure no diseases get into the country.

Hugh 25-01-2015 10:17
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkC1984 (Post 35755019)
To prevent it spreading to this country, yes they should be refused. Might sound callous to other people, but I would rather any and all measures are taken to make sure that Ebola doesn't make it to this country. If you are stupid enough to volunteer in a place like that, then you deserve everything you get.

Like I say, might sound callous but I value my life more than other people's, especially if they have the potential to spread a life threatening disease around.
Well, let's hope when you catch something infectious, the medical staff don't refuse to treat you because they value their life more than yours........

Russ 25-01-2015 10:22
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Or even from a road accident? After all if you're stupid enough to drive at 70mph in a vehicle weighing over a ton you deserve any accident injuries right?

Derek 02-02-2015 10:11
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Uh oh. Mark isn't going to be happy, they should have been taken out back and shot rather than flying them back to try and help them.

Quote:
UK military healthcare worker flown back to London following "likely exposure" to Ebola virus in Sierra Leone
http://bbc.in/1z5fr7W

Ignitionnet 02-02-2015 12:53
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Derek (Post 35756741)
Uh oh. Mark isn't going to be happy, they should have been taken out back and shot rather than flying them back to try and help them.



http://bbc.in/1z5fr7W
Shooting would've been a bad idea. The nasties would've been sprayed all over!

MalteseFalcon 02-02-2015 14:32
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Nope, not happy. Why should this country be put at risk of catching this thing? Whether ordered to be there or volunteering, if you go to a place rife with infectious disease then you should not be allowed back.

I don't give a toss if I am a callous cold human being, but forgive me for not wanting to catch Ebola or any other infectious disease.

Gary L 02-02-2015 14:43
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkC1984 (Post 35756820)
Nope, not happy. Why should this country be put at risk of catching this thing? Whether ordered to be there or volunteering, if you go to a place rife with infectious disease then you should not be allowed back.

I don't give a toss if I am a callous cold human being, but forgive me for not wanting to catch Ebola or any other infectious disease.
You remind me of that bloke who left his wife because she caught a cold last winter :)

Derek 11-03-2015 16:50
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Quote:
UK military healthcare worker in Sierra Leone tests positive for Ebola, Ministry of Defence announces
http://bbc.in/1MttmOD

MalteseFalcon 11-03-2015 17:49
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Sigh. I suppose that they will expect that people put their health at risk to bring them home, risk infecting people in the UK and then go back out to Sierra Leone after recovering. Just great.

richard s 12-03-2015 14:51
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Why on earth don't they put the specialist unit and staff from London on board HMS Argus.

alanbjames 12-03-2015 15:16
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I was attending a hospital appointment here in Swansea yesterday and there was a poster on the entrance of the hospital advising people if they have travelled from certain parts of Africa and have a fever on what to do.....

Now i was under the impression that Ebola was not only contracted by touch but also airbourne.

The instructions on the poster where either to go inside of the hospital and tell a member of staff without touching anyone or phone your G.P for advice.

heero_yuy 12-03-2015 15:28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by alanbjames (Post 35764221)
I was attending a hospital appointment here in Swansea yesterday and there was a poster on the entrance of the hospital advising people if they have travelled from certain parts of Africa and have a fever on what to do.....

Now i was under the impression that Ebola was not only contracted by touch but also airbourne.

The instructions on the poster where either to go inside of the hospital and tell a member of staff without touching anyone or phone your G.P for advice.
Spread by physical contact with bodily fluids. Only airborn as in splashing about.

Russ 12-03-2015 15:30
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Airbourne in the sense it would need to travel from bodily fluid to bodily fluid, for example if a carrier sneezed in to someone's eye etc

MalteseFalcon 12-03-2015 15:32
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
So 3 of the blighters are on their way back here. Why the bloody hell should we Brits have to be exposed, even if it is a minimal risk, to Ebola? Not happy, disgusted with this. Make them stay out there.

Russ 12-03-2015 15:39
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
If it was me I'd like to think the NHS I've paid in to all my working life would look after me.

Derek 12-03-2015 15:51
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkC1984 (Post 35764225)
So 3 of the blighters are on their way back here. Why the bloody hell should we Brits have to be exposed, even if it is a minimal risk, to Ebola? Not happy, disgusted with this. Make them stay out there.
Well if Ebola is left to run its course in Africa the chances of it mutating into something truly apocalyptic is far higher than if other nations, like the UK, help reduce its impact and infections straight away.

And if you are helping out then you deserve the best possible medical care should you get infected.

MalteseFalcon 12-03-2015 15:58
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
We obviously disagree other this, my view is well known and I won't be changing it anytime soon.

Hugh 12-03-2015 16:33
Re: UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months
 
Here's hoping you don't catch anything nasty, and health workers feel the same as you.....


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