UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months

[Arthurgray50@blu]

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]

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]

The planet is well overdue something that will cull the human infestation. Perhaps that time has come...

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]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

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]

Originally Posted by Hugh

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]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

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.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

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.

He's working himself up to blame the tories

[Osem]

Originally Posted by martyh

He's working himself up to blame the tories

[djfunkdup]

Yea it's getting worrying if you watch the news too much

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

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]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

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?

Originally Posted by Russ

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]

Originally Posted by Derek

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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Originally Posted by Hugh

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

---------- Post added at 05:47 ---------- Previous post was at 05:45 ----------

Originally Posted by Damien

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

---------- Post added at 05:54 ---------- Previous post was at 05:47 ----------

Originally Posted by Russ

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