Ebola: the current situation, measures being taken, and reasons for Spain to be optimistic

[Michael]

Now, why would the British Government sanction an RAF jet to fly all that way to bring back to the shores of the UK someone infected with one of the most deadly diseases in the world when the chance of survival is minimal at best?


Just take a moment to think about it............

Infinitely preferable to him arriving back on Easyjet or similar. Just a thought. 

[Guanche]

Sadly Michael it wouldn't supprise me if he had!

[Perikles]

I got this from the link about the Great Almond Disaster

Today, for instance, the Wall Street Journal reports that the outbreak is hurting the tourist industry in South Africa, more than 3,000 miles from the infected area:

"'Ebola is in Africa.' That is what they're saying," Mr. Hurter said. He said most of his cancellations have been from Asian clients, who make up about 60 percent of his business.

Small place, Africa

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Reminds me of the old joke (which has more than a grain of truth) that when you say you are from X (Africa, USA, large geographical area) someone asks "Do you know the <insert name of family here>?"  I've had it happen!

[Michael]

Reminds me of the old joke (which has more than a grain of truth) that when you say you are from X (Africa, USA, large geographical area) someone asks "Do you know the <insert name of family here>?"  I've had it happen!

I've had that as well. Admittedly it's slightly more likely here. 

[Janet]

The British nurse, and first British person to have Ebola during this outbreak has recovered ... he was given ZMapp, as were the American sufferers, and all three have recovered. I don't know whether the Spanish priest was given the drug ...

[Janet]

Ebola is spreading exponentially in Liberia, with thousands of new cases expected in the next three weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Conventional methods to control the outbreak were "not having an adequate impact", the UN's health agency added.

BBC

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Oh shit.

[Michael]

I've just watched a documentary about the Ebola outbreak.

Two facts stuck in my memory.

This outbreak is larger than all previous outbreaks combined.

An infected individual flew from Liberia to Lagos. As the programme said, he could just as easily have flown anywhere in the world.

[Janet]

The WHO calls this outbreak "unparalleled in modern times", and says it needs more than $1bn to fight it. The rise, said before to be exponential, is now said to be ten-fold.  BBC

Fucking hell ...

There was a susto in Tenerife yesterday when a Nigerian who'd been arrested developed a fever and started a nose bleed. Police "isolated him" (for which, read "shoved him in a cell and ran like hell") and called Sanidad. They said that it was not ebola, and that there was nothing about it that could even have been mistaken for ebola, but it shows how jumpy the police are, and (thankfully) how very aware of it they are ...