Ebola outbreak: Nurse infected in Spain

[alluvial]

Bite that pillow pony lover

[xoggoth]

So for each Ebola case, there can be 4 other cases

There's a line in there that says it depends on the number of susceptible people in the population that the affected patients are in contact with. Was that figure set when Ebola affected remoter regions and if so would it still be true in London?

What if an affected person threw up on a crowded tube train?

[suityou01]

There's a line in there that says it depends on the number of susceptible people in the population that the affected patients are in contact with. Was that figure set when Ebola affected remoter regions and if so would it still be true in London?

What if an affected person threw up on a crowded tube train?

<tugs beard>

So this might need a Suity hysteria thread?

[xoggoth]

So this might need a Suity hysteria thread?

Yeh - go on!!!

[minestrone]

It could wipe out Newcastle in a month...

More than one in four commuters has bacteria from faeces on their hands, an investigation suggests.
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In Newcastle and Liverpool, men were more likely than women to show contamination - 53% of men compared with 30% of women in Newcastle and 36% of men compared with 31% of women in Liverpool.

BBC NEWS | Health | Faecal bacteria join the commute

[suityou01]

Yeh - go on!!!

OK. But they don't just happen! They take careful planning and research you know. I don't just post any old tosh for the sake of it.

[SueEllen]

My point was that all the informed sources say that it is hard to catch and blame the spread on the practice of laying hands on the dead. However this copper seems to have caught it (if indeed it's not just a heavy cold) by walking into an apartment.

The copper was in Sierra Leone.

Do you really think he just walked into the apartment? Remember police in Sierra Leone like a few extras to top up their salaries. linky

[alluvial]

The copper was in Sierra Leone.

Do you really think he just walked into the apartment? Remember police in Sierra Leone like a few extras to top up their salaries. linky

Different copper. Another linky.

[xoggoth]

So now they are going to screen arrivals.

How will that stop infected persons exactly? A flight takes about 12 hours but the virus will not be detected until symptoms start, anything from 2-21 days after infection. They are also going to ask questions about whether people have been to dangerous areas or been in contact with infected people. Do they really imagine everyone coming all the way to the UK from that part of the world is going to tell the truth and jeopardise their chance of entry?

A pointless gesture so the government can claim they are doing something.

[minestrone]

They point a wee laser at your head and see if you have a fever.