Ebola scaremongering?

Maybe it's time to set up a quarantine complex for returning healthcare workers.
it seems if there is a threat to the west it's ironically via returning westerners.

I wonder what the probability is that one of the 91 UK soldiers returns with it but doesn't find out for 2 or even 3 weeks after getting back? Someone's probably calculated it as part of a risk assessment.
 
Domo said:
I wonder what the probability is that one of the 91 UK soldiers returns with it but doesn't find out for 2 or even 3 weeks after getting back? Someone's probably calculated it as part of a risk assessment.
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I posted this a week ago. She really wants nothing to do with them until they've been back for a while and show no signs of illness. Can't blame her in the slightest considering...
 
Domo said:
it seems if there is a threat to the west it's ironically via returning westerners.
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Which again was the very reason some of us have said from the start it should have been allowed to burn out from the off and it's about time the West stopped interfering in Africa and other such places. Such places are very quick to condemn us for interfering when they don't want to share a profit but all too quick to want us when they want to share a cost.

The quarantine is a good idea but let's put it this way. They are struggling to get people to go - my wife and I have both received correspondence requesting we go for a 3 month period. Now add another onto the end and it's going to be even less attractive. The simple fact is a lot of the people who have the experience to deal with such events have had to have quite a bit of time under their belt to get that experience. By and large they have roots, careers and relationships and simply can't afford this time away.

Therefore, you are left with a core of people who live a monastic type subservience to healthcare (a small minority of people these days) and the younger less experienced. Now whilst there is always a risk to staff it is amplified in the less experienced and yes when they get ill they are being brought back which poses people at home a risk.

The US mismanaged the previous cases and may well mismanage this one too because they have a disjointed system with no centralisation to co-ordinate such actions with an over-riding remit. That is not a problem most other countries face - from the UK through to say something at the other end of the scale Cuba.

OhEsEcks said:
She really wants nothing to do with them until they've been back for a while and show no signs of illness.
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They would be asymptomatic. Why is she so concerned about this? Does she worry about other VHDs too? What about Hepatitis, HIV, etc. Or has she jumped on the bandwagon too.
 
Domo said:
I wonder what the probability is that one of the 91 UK soldiers returns with it but doesn't find out for 2 or even 3 weeks after getting back? Someone's probably calculated it as part of a risk assessment.
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I thought they were all going to be quarantined for 3 weeks once they return?
 
Just seen a guy in Manc wearing a full haz-mat suit and a gas mask.

Stock up on your lockets people, it's the only cure.
 
The Mali president is lying, a baby traveled for hundreds of miles on public transport. But he's saying everyone been traced and it under control. Ok then, but I don't belive him. We wouldn't be able to do that in the UK despite cctv overload.
 
jsmoke said:
Can you not catch ebola from casual contact as that's what the news seem to think?
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What is your actual question?
How to catch ebola?
Or what does the news think?

The thread covers in details known transmission of ebola.
Blood, body fluids, sweat apparently, sperm.
Highly infective through mucosa membrane or open wound exposure.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
What is your actual question?
How to catch ebola?
Or what does the news think?

The thread covers in details known transmission of ebola.
Blood, body fluids, sweat apparently, sperm.
Highly infective through mucosa membrane or open wound exposure.
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That's the whole point I am making. Many so called experts on the news saying you can't catch ebola from say sitting next to someone on the tube. However, stage one ebola is apparently very like the cold/flu so what if they cough on you, what if they cough on a rail handle, you touch it and touch your mouth, what if they touch a rail handle with their sweaty hands, you touch the same railing, touch your mouth, I have read a few articles and I don't see why this wouldn't be unreasonable so are they sending people to their death?
 
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