Ebola: UK border staff 'unprepared' says union leader

BBC News ^ | July 31, 2014

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Border, immigration and customs staff feel unprepared to deal with people coming to the UK with possible cases of the Ebola virus, a union leader says.

Immigration Service Union (ISU) general secretary Lucy Moreton said her members needed more information on the threat.

But the Border Force has insisted staff have been given guidance on how to identify and deal with suspected cases.

Almost 700 people have died in West Africa since the first case of Ebola was detected in February.

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the UK government was taking the current threat to the country "very seriously".

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The scientist who helped discover the Ebola virus said the outbreak in west Africa was unlikely to trigger a major epidemic outside the region, adding he would happily sit next to an infected person on a train.

Stark raving mad, hopelessly ignorant, or trying to quell panic through misinformation (or a combination of all three):

Taxis, planes and viruses: How deadly Ebola can spread

From the article:

She [a recently exposed victim of Ebola] took a communal taxi via Liberia's capital Monrovia, exposing five other people to the virus who later contracted and died of the Ebola.

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Sweat along saliva and mucus from sneezing combined with a 60-hr. survival time outside a host ensures it will continue to spread. When the weather cools it could spread via the invisible, off-the-books activities and trade routes such as prostitution and drug networks.