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

[Guanche]

According to the BBC there have been 19 people infected and treated in the world outside the West African infection zone. Nine of them have been in the USA.

Re reading the article the main source of American infection came from health workers returning from Africa and not being infected in the USA. I'm sorry my post was misleading. But the main point of my post stands

[El Profesor]

9? No, that's wrong . . . . . what they have in the US is irrational media hysteria.

Two cases diagosed but infected in Africa and two nurses who looked after them. Riding a bicycle around won't infect anyone even if you have it.

One person has died in the US of ebola and he didn't even catch it there. Not exactly anything to worry about.

[El Profesor]

. . . . . . . . . Spanish nurse Teresa Romero,  . . . . . . . . . . . .  became a national cause when her dog Excalibur was put down.

Romero: "¡No quiero entrevistas... lo que yo necesito es a mi perro!"  LINK

"I don't want intrerviews! All I need is my dog."

So much unnecessary ignorant hysteria.

[Guanche]

9? No, that's wrong . . . . . what they have in the US is irrational media hysteria.

Two cases diagosed but infected in Africa and two nurses who looked after them. Riding a bicycle around won't infect anyone even if you have it.

One person has died in the US of ebola and he didn't even catch it there. Not exactly anything to worry about.

The stats would be the BBC's problem. As for riding a bike when your supposed to be in quarantine for a few days is just plain stupid. Say she had an accident? Whether she has it or not is not important, whats important is that she, just for the sake of public safety and reassurance, follows the rules. Its not as if she's chained up and in a cell somewhere.

[Nova]

What do I have to do to get 21 days quarantine?  I'll pay!!!! 

[Guanche]

All sense seem to have gone out of the window now. The boss of the UN has now come out saying that the discrimination shown against health workers returning from West Africa by quarantine requirements is unacceptable. Bear in mind were only talking about 21 days!

In the same article there is a woman from the UN stating that this Ebola outbreak is 'the greatest public health crisis ever' I feel like shouting will someone please make their minds up.
It's either one or the other, this is a public relations disaster and makes both organizations look like a shower of idiots.

In the mean time the nurse in the USA has been granted her God given 'civil rights' and is now able, it would seem to go where the hell she likes so long as she tells someone.

I am getting to the point that if the WHO or the UN told me that water is wet I would ask for a second opinion!

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

"reasons for Spain to be optimistic"

Sorry, I got so caught up in the Leroy Merlin saga I forgot to report in on Ebola.

At my dentist's office in Sta Cruz, the Sanitas Millenium Dental Centre, I was comforted on two fronts.  There, on the reception desk, was an A4 sheet of paper telling use everything we needed to know about Ebola prevention and avoidance, and it advised us not to travel to Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia or Nigeria.  Man did I feel safe.

Then while waiting I was reading a gossip mag, Pronto (think OK! Magazine) and they had a four page spread all about Ebola.  Apparently we pronounce it ébola in Spanish.  But I learned a lot and gained better understanding from the glossy pictures.

Let us be optimistic in Spain.

[Perikles]

Apparently we pronounce it ébola in Spanish. 

Or in Tenerife, é-oa 

[Janet]

I'm not posting this publicly because I don't think the schadenfraude is something I want to be associated with, and I don't need to report it anyway because it's made all sorts of press including national and international papers ... but the story on the following link has it in a nutshell, and explains how "the Canarian protocol", that which is supposedly up and running, efficient, ready and waiting, actually operates ...

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

I saw that and thought it was hysterical.

I didn't know whether to put the following here or in the What I Hate about Facebook thread:  when I went on to FB this morning they solicited me for a donation to fighting Ebola.  I clicked on cancel.  Seems Zuckerberg is donating $25M of his own money.  Bully for him.