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Merged So Ebola's back......

US national working in Sierra Leone may have been exposed to EVD, being evacuated to Nebraska Medical Center for observation.
Will there be the same degree of panic and fearmongering as before the November election?
 
Following investigation the WHO has declared the rumours of EVD in Iraq to be untrue.
 
I can't help finding some possible contradiction in the assurances of politicians that the British NHS could cope with ebola in Britain, given the succession of failures of major hospital A&E departments to cope with "routine" admissions.
How many isolation tents are there in the London Free Hospital, exactly?
 
Soapy Sam said:
I can't help finding some possible contradiction in the assurances of politicians that the British NHS could cope with ebola in Britain, given the succession of failures of major hospital A&E departments to cope with "routine" admissions.
How many isolation tents are there in the London Free Hospital, exactly?
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Two in the unit at the Royal Free assigned to take EVD patients, but with the capacity to add more should there be more cases. There are also EVD isolation units at Royal Liverpool hospital, Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire hospital and the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The protocol for dealing with this disease here was always to send all patients to the Royal Free, unless it is full, in which case patients will be sent to the above three hospitals. However, all hospitals have isolation units which could be used to nurse EVD patients if necessary.

Given the way EVD is contracted and spread, proper isolation nursing and hygiene procedures should mean that there will be no epidemic in the UK, so the capacity we have is more than sufficient.
 
I remain...dare I say sceptical?
Plague, however infectious, is a potential terror weapon. There are terrorists in west Africa as well as Europe.
The economic cost of a deliberate introduction would be huge, even if the actual casualty numbers were kept low. I doubt one two bed unit would be adequate.
Meanwhile, excellent news about Pauline Cafferkey, who is off the " critical" list.
 
The suspected US case of EVD, in Denver, has tested negative for the disease.
There is a patient in the UK, at North Manchester General Hospital, who is also being tested.
New EVD cases in Liberia have dropped >30pd to <10pd.
 
Mali is now officially EVD free, in Guinea schools are being re-opened and there have been no new EVD cases in Sierra Leone for nearly six weeks also.
The UN Ebola coordinator, David Nabarro, has said the epidemic has 'passed the tipping point'.

It looks like the panic wasn't justified.
 
Oh, that panic.
I dunno it was a panic exactly. I did stockpile enough food water and fuel so I don't have to go outside till 2019, but I mean , doesn't everyone?

Joking aside, the virus has managed to reach Europe, UK and America, which is going global by most definitions and the outbreak is not over yet, though there are signs of improvement in some places.

If it is eventually stopped in West Africa, we all have a number of people to thank, African and not, who have been putting their lives on the line for many months now. I think they deserved better from us than they got. Next time - and there will be a next time- I hope the rest of the world gets off its rear a lot faster.
 
Soapy Sam said:
Oh, that panic.
I dunno it was a panic exactly. I did stockpile enough food water and fuel so I don't have to go outside till 2019, but I mean , doesn't everyone?
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:D

Soapy Sam;10434250 Joking aside said:
But damn all cases of infection outside Africa, contrary to some assertions.
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Bump.
The WHO is investigating an outbreak of what may be a new Haemorrhagic fever in South Sudan. Ten dead so far.
It's not EVD and appears to be far less dangerous, patients "rapidly resolve following supportive treatment". Nor is it Marburg, Rift Valley fever, yellow fever, West Nile or Crimean-Congo fever; it may be a new form of O'nyong-nyong (a mosquito-borne virus closely related to chikungunya) as some of the samples tested have tested positive for this virus.

WHO.

Get ready to panic.
 
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