World News : Ebola: Heathrow to start screening passengers

[Anonymous]

Headline : Ebola: Heathrow to start screening passengers.

Excerpt from the Link "Heathrow airport is to start screening for Ebola among passengers flying into the UK from countries at risk."


My thoughts :

This is getting rather worrying when it could appear on our own doorstep. Not taking anything away from the people and families that have suffered from this to date.

Source : BBC News.
Read more here : http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29605988

[Anonymous]

when I heard they are starting to screen Ebola at Heathrow I thought it was far too early for a film!!

[jonsie]

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@Anonymous wrote:

when I heard they are starting to screen Ebola at Heathrow I thought it was far too early for a film!!

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Serious subject though. So what happens if they find someone on a flight? Do they test every passenger on that flight, some of whom may have cleared customs and left. Flight crew too? I'm afraid there's a kind of inevitability that we are going to see cases here in the UK

[viridis]

Bout blooming time, seems the western world has forgotten the role of quarantine.
I can't see them keeping the lid on this unless they change protocol, soon.

[Anonymous]

Is this something we may see here in the Uk ?


Headline : Ebola text-message system set to expand

Excerpt from the Link "The operators of a text-message-based system used to advise people about Ebola in Sierra Leone aim to extend it to seven other West African nations."


Source : BBC News.
Read more here : http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29610865

[Cleoriff]

Speaking from a medical perspective....we are in for a very rough time with this one ...We are not prepared and the the prospects are unimaginable

Not often I agree with Jeremy Hunt...but he is right to say we have a global health emergency on our hands.

Someone likened it to the Aids epidemic. So far from the truth .....Aids wasn't as virulent as this.

[viridis]

Black death was tho.

[Cleoriff]

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@viridis wrote:
Black death was tho.

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Indeed...and they were unable to take planes all over the world...

[Anonymous]

With the National Health Service apparently stretched as it is the possible fallout from this is not a good prognosis. 😞

[Cleoriff]

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@Anonymous wrote:
With the National Health Service apparently stretched as it is the possible fallout from this is not a good prognosis. 😞

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We wont cope...its as simple and dire as that....

We have neither the facilities nor staff trained at the level of Infectious Disease control required.