Ebola!

[Just-Jude]

Passengers arriving at Heathrow are being checked for the virus by G4S staff...yep, the same cowboys who got the security contract for the 2012 Olympics!

Expect an epidemic in London soon!

[Henrietta]

"No wonder......Ebola transmission is not airborne"

Sqad is there a possibility it could mutate and become airborne and much more infectious?

[tigerlelly]

I really do not understand why the whole of Africa isn't put under quarantine until the Ebola epidemic is stamped out. Yet again governments in the west are sleepwalking into disaster.

[Sqad]

Henrietta

\\\\Sqad is there a possibility it could mutate and become airborne and much more infectious?\\\

It might, no sign of that happening at the moment.....but in Medicine...............one never says never.

[EDDIE51]

How many of you would be prepared to sit for hours on end checking people to see if they might have a disease so infectious that the most minute contact could kill you? The nurse that died of ebola just accidently touched her face with a finger as she was removing her protective gear. The most infectious phase of ebola is when you have no symptoms before your temperature starts to rise, so this is just a cosmetic exercise to 'cover arses' so that the government can be said to be 'doing something'
I certainly would not want to be exposing myself to a disease that now has a 75% 'kill rate' for minimum wage.

[EDDIE51]

Another though! People are coming in from West Africa clutching their passports in their sweaty hands . If one of them had got Ebola in the early stages with no symptoms that passport is going to be infectious! Just touching it could be a death sentence! Do the immigration desk staff know this? are they just waving them through? or are they prepared to risk death for themselves and their family's by doing their job and scrutinising all documents thoroughly ? Has the government even thought of this?
I hope I am wrong, but I expect at least 100 cases in the UK before Christmas and a few of them to be airport immigration staff.

[EDDIE51]

Another confirmed case in the USA and 132 at risk!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29632433

[Dizmo]

Squad: If one of the genome was remapped with an aviation variety? Surely then it could become airborne. It could be man made or be due to a carrier such as a BIRD, OR A PLANE!