Posted on 08/19/2014 9:31:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin
African nations hit hard by the Ebola outbreak should start screening all passengers leaving international airports, seaports and major ground crossings, the World Health Organization recommended Monday.
The United Nations' health agency reiterated that the risk of passengers transmitting the Ebola virus during air travel is low. Still, anyone with an illness or symptoms typical of the highly virulent disease shouldn't be allowed to travel unless it's for appropriate medical care, the agency said in a statement.
Symptoms of Ebola include a sudden fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. This is followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, poor kidney and liver function and, in some cases, both internal and external bleeding.
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“....anyone with an illness or symptoms typical of the highly virulent disease shouldn’t be allowed to travel unless it’s for appropriate medical care....”
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So anyone requiring “appropriate medical care” will be allowed to spread the virus among the passengers in a cooped-up airplane flight?
Early detection is key in fighting the disease. However, current tests only show results in seven to ten days because samples have to be flown to testing centers in Europe.
Corgenix is perfecting a home blood test kit that would provide results in just 15 minutes
But at present, there is no rapid assay test for Ebola virus
WHO is evil!
If they had the guts to quarantine in April, this out break would have been finished. Instead we have over 2000 cases and counting. Probably at least 1000 deaths and growing daily can be laid directly at the feet of WHO's inadequate reponses.
WHO is evil!
If they had the guts to quarantine in April, this out break would have been finished. Instead we have over 2000 cases and counting. Probably at least 1000 deaths and growing daily can be laid directly at the feet of WHO's inadequate reponses.
My prediction is that somewhere, soon, a passenger will fall ill after flying on a plane with an Ebola carrier. If that passenger is American, there will be a lawsuit against the airline filed within milliseconds of the diagnosis. And all air travel to affected African countries will stop the next day.
OK - let’s get the 15 minute diagnostic test - and then imagine what happens at an airport when a passenger tests positive for ebola!
“Zombie quarantine team: Please pick up the white courtesy phone and report to Gate 35!”
Wasn’t it recently during SARS or bird flu or ? ... when some countries were not allowing pax to fly if they had a fever
So, if this airport is any indication of things throughout Africa, I have little confidence that they can do much of anything to screen people who might be a danger.
“But at present, there is no rapid assay test for Ebola virus “
That’s a real problem. Particularly since the WHO and the African nations most directly involved seem unable to quarantine or establish adequate protocols, leaving that to their overburdened medical systems and missionary physicians.
It’s definitely a problem, and I feel bad also for people who are identifiably African and get sick in Europe. I’m in remote northern Spain right now and today a saw a well dressed black woman - who may not have even been from Africa or have had any contact with it - get sick in a public plaza. Her daughter, about 12, also not African in her dress or manner, was trying to help her, and looking around for help. Normally the Spanish are very helpful and concerned, but this time they all stayed back and you could see the fear. A policeman came out of a nearby post at a government building and called for help.
I continued on my way and then when I passed by again I saw a crew out there disinfecting the place where she threw up. I’m sure she just had the flu or maybe ate some bad calemares, but everybody here is afraid of Africans now. There’s a suspected case in Alicante.
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