Reply to: Ebola - Nothing to Worry About?

[alluvial]

Doomsday ???, The one with the Mad Max like cannibals ?

That was the one.

[MicrosoftBob]

What was the film where they did that?

Doomsday ???, The one with the Mad Max like cannibals ?

[BrilloPad]

Ooh look! I'm bleeding from every orifice and can hardly move. Must post this on Twitter!

Reminds me of embarrassing bodies. Too scared to visit their doctor - but happy to show in front of 5 million people.

[alluvial]

Use Hadrians Wall for something useful, set Scotland as a quarantine zone then when independance comes we just catapult anyone undesirable over the wall

What was the film where they did that?

[MicrosoftBob]

But you know, I really wouldn't be surprised if it was.

But then, what else can be done? Monitoring is all well and good, but all monitoring will tell you is that no one has presented any symptoms yet. Then, when your monitoring identifies that there is someone with the disease, it is probably too late.

Use Hadrians Wall for something useful, set Scotland as a quarantine zone then when independance comes we just catapult anyone undesirable over the wall

[UglyBetty]

An outbreak reported on twitter should be e-ebola.

[CloudWalker]

how cute

[original PM]

Shouldn't we all just have blind faith in the authorities that they know what they are doing?

indeed they are so much cleverer than us but we can rest assured they have our best interests at heart...

[alluvial]

Indeed very dodgy ground if they have not been looking for the answers on here

Shouldn't we all just have blind faith in the authorities that they know what they are doing?

[alluvial]

How do you know no NHS staff dealing with the athletes have experience of haemorrhagic fevers? There are, you may be surprised to know, specialist centres for the treatment of tropical illnesses in the UK; and it's not as if they'll be expecting visiting athletes from central Africa to pop down to Dr. McTavish's surgery and sit in the waiting room for a couple of hours. Maybe - just maybe - an organisation dedicated to providing medical care has had the foresight to get a few people with experience of tropical diseases to join the medical staff attending on the athletes?

Or perhaps they didn't think of that, what with not having had the foresight to turn to a contractors' forum for guidance from somebody who's read a couple of paragraphs in a newspaper

Considering that cavers in this country are advised to carry a small card that lists the symptoms of Weil's disease (something that is common in this country and easily mistaken for flu) so that it can be presented to health professionals to help avoid the misdiagnosis that usually happens, I don't hold out much hope.

One would hope that measures have been put in place to monitor the athletes and their entourage, with professionals with direct experience of the disease being involved. However, the cynic in me says that it is more likely that they'll consider the risk too small to be worth more than "monitoring of the situation" or will consider it too un-PC to single out a group that requires additional monitoring.

[original PM]

How do you know no NHS staff dealing with the athletes have experience of haemorrhagic fevers? There are, you may be surprised to know, specialist centres for the treatment of tropical illnesses in the UK; and it's not as if they'll be expecting visiting athletes from central Africa to pop down to Dr. McTavish's surgery and sit in the waiting room for a couple of hours. Maybe - just maybe - an organisation dedicated to providing medical care has had the foresight to get a few people with experience of tropical diseases to join the medical staff attending on the athletes?

Or perhaps they didn't think of that, what with not having had the foresight to turn to a contractors' forum for guidance from somebody who's read a couple of paragraphs in a newspaper

Indeed very dodgy ground if they have not been looking for the answers on here

[NickFitz]

Hmm, do you mean the reading the papers to see how things are going in Africa or the asking nurses to look out for a disease that none of them have had any experience of and could be easily mistaken for the flu in the early stages?

How do you know no NHS staff dealing with the athletes have experience of haemorrhagic fevers? There are, you may be surprised to know, specialist centres for the treatment of tropical illnesses in the UK; and it's not as if they'll be expecting visiting athletes from central Africa to pop down to Dr. McTavish's surgery and sit in the waiting room for a couple of hours. Maybe - just maybe - an organisation dedicated to providing medical care has had the foresight to get a few people with experience of tropical diseases to join the medical staff attending on the athletes?

Or perhaps they didn't think of that, what with not having had the foresight to turn to a contractors' forum for guidance from somebody who's read a couple of paragraphs in a newspaper

[alluvial]

Despite the fact that at least one other set of measures they're taking is explicitly mentioned in the text you posted above?

Hmm, do you mean the reading the papers to see how things are going in Africa or the asking nurses to look out for a disease that none of them have had any experience of and could be easily mistaken for the flu in the early stages?

[NickFitz]

But you know, I really wouldn't be surprised if it was.

Despite the fact that at least one other set of measures they're taking is explicitly mentioned in the text you posted above?

[alluvial]

It's a good job monitoring Twitter isn't the only thing they're doing then, isn't it?

But you know, I really wouldn't be surprised if it was.

But then, what else can be done? Monitoring is all well and good, but all monitoring will tell you is that no one has presented any symptoms yet. Then, when your monitoring identifies that there is someone with the disease, it is probably too late.