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

[viridis]

Yeah, thanks to aid workers who for some reason aren't being quarantined on return from Africa.

[jonsie]

Not forgetting the 375 soldiers sent out there....

[Beenherebefore]

Turning off the recirculating aircon on aircraft would help 

[Cleoriff]

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@Beenherebefore wrote:

Turning off the recirculating aircon on aircraft would help 

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It would...but not much.....all a bit too little...a lot too late

[jonsie]

Won't be long before we're all walking round with facemasks....

[Beenherebefore]

Then I can pretend to be Japanese ! 

[Anonymous]

Looks like screening is due to start at Gatwick, Birmingham, Manchester and the Eurostar as well...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29655766

I think this is all well and good for flighst that are arriving from Africa, and I am assuming thats why these airports are to start screening. But...what about people making connecting flights within the 21-day gestation period?

It is perfectly possibly for someone to leave Sieraa Leone, fly to somewhere like Amsterdam and then a couple of days later fly into Glasgow

[viridis]

Exactly, why quarantine procedures need implementation in affected countries, not at final destination

[jonsie]

It does make you worry. What's to stop someone from Spain or the US where cases are already confirmed?

[Cleoriff]

I think this news has come hot on the heels of the World Health Organisation  making a statement Wednesday "that we have 60 days only to stop this virus reaching pandemic proportions....

Too little... too late I think....

I flew out from BHX on Weds to Spain  and no-one seemed to be implementing anything then

However I have to say passport control at Malaga was a lot more vigilant...(they normally don't give a damn).... Those of obvious African background  were quizzed longer than anyone else...