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[chrisgixer]

....been on going since February 

BBC World service talking about it in Spain a month ago. Story only just breaking here. Why?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Catch it and you have 50%-90% chance of death......apparently.

[Kevin Wood]

Catch it and you have 50%-90% chance of death......apparently.

.. and a most unpleasant death, at that. 

With things like this around, one wonders if the jet engine was such a great invention after all.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I travelled through Singapore during the SARS epidemic a few years ago and everyone was screened with an infra red scanner and our temperatures were manually taken before we got to immigration.  I guess anyone with a high temperature or looking unwell would have been whisked off for further tests. 

You'd think they'd start doing that here for flights from the affected countries in West Africa, but I expect they'll be more worried about offending people or breaching their 'uman rights!   

[Rods2]

I travelled through Singapore during the SARS epidemic a few years ago and everyone was screened with an infra red scanner and our temperatures were manually taken before we got to immigration.  I guess anyone with a high temperature or looking unwell would have been whisked off for further tests. 

You'd think they'd start doing that here over there for flights from the affected countries in West Africa, but I expect they'll be more worried about offending people or breaching their 'uman rights!   

Fixed. Otherwise when they have the first signs they will be on the next plane over here for free treatment on the NHS along with everybody else they have given it to on the plane.

[05omegav6]

I travelled through Singapore during the SARS epidemic a few years ago and everyone was screened with an infra red scanner and our temperatures were manually taken before we got to immigration.  I guess anyone with a high temperature or looking unwell would have been whisked off for further tests. 

You'd think they'd start doing that here over there for flights from the affected countries in West Africa, but I expect they'll be more worried about offending people or breaching their 'uman rights!   

Fixed. Otherwise when they have the first signs they will be on the next plane over here for free treatment on the NHS along with everybody else they have given it to on the plane.

Ah yes, good old fashioned scaremongering... generally requires an exchange/donation of bodily fluid, so unless you're a complete whore, or enjoy being sneezed at, you actually have a fair to middling chance of NOT catching it

Catch it and you have 50%-90% chance of death......apparently.

Sorry to be a party pooper Dr Opti, and everyone else for that matter, but here it is...

You have a 100% chance of dying.

Ever Robert Mugabe and Desmond Tutu won't be around forever...

[Rods2]

I travelled through Singapore during the SARS epidemic a few years ago and everyone was screened with an infra red scanner and our temperatures were manually taken before we got to immigration.  I guess anyone with a high temperature or looking unwell would have been whisked off for further tests. 

You'd think they'd start doing that here over there for flights from the affected countries in West Africa, but I expect they'll be more worried about offending people or breaching their 'uman rights!   

Fixed. Otherwise when they have the first signs they will be on the next plane over here for free treatment on the NHS along with everybody else they have given it to on the plane.

Ah yes, good old fashioned scaremongering... generally requires an exchange/donation of bodily fluid, so unless you're a complete whore, or enjoy being sneezed at, you actually have a fair to middling chance of NOT catching it

Catch it and you have 50%-90% chance of death......apparently.

Sorry to be a party pooper Dr Opti, and everyone else for that matter, but here it is...

You have a 100% chance of dying.

Ever Robert Mugabe and Desmond Tutu won't be around forever...

Rumour has it Dr Opti is 204 and is still like spring chicken, apart from his memory where he has given his age on here at different times ranging from 35 to 103. He is running out of wall space for all of his framed telegrams, hung between, the obligatory at his time of life, ceramic ducks. One of his first memories at 5 was the Duke of Wellington defeating Napoleon in the battle of Waterloo.

[Vamps]

....been on going since February 

BBC World service talking about it in Spain a month ago. Story only just breaking here. Why?

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Was on the News some time ago, video footage etc, it must have been on your Friday, which is why you may have missed it........

[Rods2]

I travelled through Singapore during the SARS epidemic a few years ago and everyone was screened with an infra red scanner and our temperatures were manually taken before we got to immigration.  I guess anyone with a high temperature or looking unwell would have been whisked off for further tests. 

You'd think they'd start doing that here over there for flights from the affected countries in West Africa, but I expect they'll be more worried about offending people or breaching their 'uman rights!   

Fixed. Otherwise when they have the first signs they will be on the next plane over here for free treatment on the NHS along with everybody else they have given it to on the plane.

Ah yes, good old fashioned scaremongering... generally requires an exchange/donation of bodily fluid, so unless you're a complete whore, or enjoy being sneezed at, you actually have a fair to middling chance of NOT catching it

Catch it and you have 50%-90% chance of death......apparently.

Sorry to be a party pooper Dr Opti, and everyone else for that matter, but here it is...

You have a 100% chance of dying.

Ever Robert Mugabe and Desmond Tutu won't be around forever...

Try telling that to the over 100 health workers that have caught it with a 60% death rate, even though they all wear full biological suits!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/01/us-health-ebola-healthworkers-idUSKBN0G14FR20140801

It is unlikely to spread here but SARS went from China to Hong Kong and then Toronto in Canada.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/02/caring-for-ebola-patients-deeply-scary.html

WHO have just allocated $100m to try and bring the outbreak in Africa under control.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Part of the problem has been caused by relatives taking bodies away for traditional burials where the body is washed first.  For sure the relatives have been doing this with their bare hands and getting infected in the process! 

[Rods2]

Part of the problem has been caused by relatives taking bodies away for traditional burials where the body is washed first.  For sure the relatives have been doing this with their bare hands and getting infected in the process! 

There have also been problems where hospital treatment has been shunned in preference to treatment by the local witch doctor.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Yes in many parts of Africa, especially in the countryside modern medicine is distrusted and conspiracy theories abound, such as AIDS was introduced by America and other Western countries to control the population. 

Then of course there is the cost and I guess the local witchdoctor is cheaper. 

[05omegav6]

I paraphrased slightly, but that was what an eminent person interviewed on Jeremy Whine said last week...

Part of the problem has been caused by relatives taking bodies away for traditional burials where the body is washed first.  For sure the relatives have been doing this with their bare hands and getting infected in the process! 

There have also been problems where hospital treatment has been shunned in preference to treatment by the local witch doctor.

Welcome to Africa

[plym ian]

I heard on the news they are bring a British patient from sierras leone who as Ebola. I think that's just asking for trouble bring them here risking it spreading. Although in isolation could still happen

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28919831

Remember the film outbreak with dustin Hoffman 

[The Sheriff]

I heard on the news they are bring a British patient from sierras leone who as Ebola. I think that's just asking for trouble bring them here risking it spreading. Although in isolation could still happen

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28919831

Remember the film outbreak with dustin Hoffman 

An outbreak of films starring Dustin Hoffman? Doesn't sound too bad.