UK Ebola Cases Expected In Next Three Months

[Ignitionnet]

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?

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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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

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]

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]

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.

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]

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.

[Russ]

UK screening is going as well as expected:

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

[Osem]

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]

Originally Posted by Osem

....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.

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!

Originally Posted by Taf

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.
















What?

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Taf

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.

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...

[Russ]

Originally Posted by Damien

Weird. Really all the cases should be moved to Wales and then the border closed.

No chance, we've been trying to close the border for years

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

[Taf]

Whilst we worry about ebola, things have not been quiet in Europe:

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

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]

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

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]

The sad thing is that, the patient may be transferred to London

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

The sad thing is that, the patient may be transferred to London

Why would that be sad?