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2014-09-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Ebola: probability flying out of Africa on a plane. UK most at risk 6000 passengers per week

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Posted by anon1 2014-09-09 10:08|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 red alert all hands to battle stations

link doesn't work i think i could have done it wrong?

here it is here

Fixed. In future, please paste the link in the box where this time you typed in the name of your source, 'k?

Thanks!
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Posted by anon1 2014-09-09 10:16|| 2014-09-09 10:16|| Front Page Top

#2 actual report (linked to by the vox story) puts the UK at a 25% chance of having someone fly there with ebola by September 22

2nd highest probability after Ghana.

Must be a lot of traffic from west africa to london... lots of immigration

Posted by anon1 2014-09-09 10:20|| 2014-09-09 10:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Easy enough to stop an airliner apparently.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-09-09 12:31|| 2014-09-09 12:31|| Front Page Top

#4 It isn't about stopping the plane. It is about figuring out who has been exposed and is infected.
Ebola takes on average 8-10 days for signs to start from infection and can take up to 20 days.

So you have people that might have been infected only a couple days before they leave, walk around the UK and interact and touch people for a week or two, then start getting symptoms, and then how long before they figure out it is Ebola and how many people including health workers are exposed, and how many other non-symptomatic people are now infected and walking around.

It can blow up very quickly in a dense population like London.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-09-09 13:07|| 2014-09-09 13:07|| Front Page Top

#5 If anyone in the UK gets ebola I will personally spread it around the establishment that subsidised this multi-cult national cult.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-09-09 14:58|| 2014-09-09 14:58|| Front Page Top

#6 You go, BP!

Posted by Barbara 2014-09-09 15:04|| 2014-09-09 15:04|| Front Page Top

#7 There's always the north BP. Housing prices may be coming down a bit.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-09 15:08|| 2014-09-09 15:08|| Front Page Top

#8 It can blow up very quickly in a dense population like London.
Or Mecca, during the Haj.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-09-09 15:49|| 2014-09-09 15:49|| Front Page Top

#9 thanks TW!

Posted by anon1 2014-09-09 16:43|| 2014-09-09 16:43|| Front Page Top

#10 think the moslems of saudi will have lower transmission rates, on account that their women wear sacks covering their face, and gloves and every bit is covered.

that could act like one of those space suits the health care workers use.

so the moslems might fare better than the rest of us due to their otherwise odious customs?

Posted by anon1 2014-09-09 16:45|| 2014-09-09 16:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Is Ebola likely to spread as wildly in a nation with better sanitation, more prepared healthcare workers etc?

Posted by Mike N. 2014-09-09 17:21|| 2014-09-09 17:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Come home Mike. Your empire still exists.

Posted by Shipman 2014-09-09 17:22|| 2014-09-09 17:22|| Front Page Top

#13 Cairo, Khartoum, Libya or Jo'burg are my leading candidates for the first sustained spread outside tropical Africa.

Posted by phil_b 2014-09-09 17:52|| 2014-09-09 17:52|| Front Page Top

#14 Indonesia

Posted by Frank G 2014-09-09 19:33|| 2014-09-09 19:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Why Indonesia?

Posted by phil_b 2014-09-09 20:07|| 2014-09-09 20:07|| Front Page Top

#16 No word on the ELEVEN passenger airliners repor still missing in Libya.

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