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Thread #154975   Message #3666743
Posted By: GUEST,Rahere
06-Oct-14 - 06:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Anybody else watching Ebola break out?
Subject: RE: BS: Anybody else watching Ebola break out?
One of my flags just got tripped (and I used to be a manager in the European crisis management centre): the Spanish nurse who picked it up from the Priest brought back from Liberia nursed him, cleaned up the room after he died, AND THEN WENT ON HOLIDAY. They don't know for sure that it isn't communcating by air, its incubation period can be between 2 and 21 days, and it was only when she became symptomatic - ie transmissible - that she sought help. How long was she contageous before that: and among holidaymakers. Yet the Spanish Minister of Health continues to be proud of her Sector's professionalism. That kind of pride, continuing in the face of the evidence that they cocked up in the most dangerous way possible, is a recipe for disaster: should they even have repatriated the priest in the first place, even? That's wisdom after the event, but now the risk is they've let it out of a medical environment and into holidaymakers. Next stop Rochdale or Eltham?
Now we must pray for the next three weeks. Oh, and in passing, a male who recovers still has infectious semen for up to eight weeks...