Ebola outbreak: Royal Air Force 'on standby' to bring back infected Brits

The Telegraph ^ | 7-30-14 | Sarah Knapton

[dynachrome]

The Royal Air Force could be called in to bring back UK citizens infected with the deadly Ebola disease from West Africa. David Cameron has said that Ebola outbreak is a ‘very serious threat’ to the UK and the foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, is preparing to chair an emergency meeting today on how to tighten Britain’s defences against the virus. Major Thomas Fletcher, of the Royal Army Medical Corps said it was likely the meeting would discuss putting the military on alert to ‘repatriate’ Britons infected with the disease. The Royal Air Force’s Infection Prevention Control Team is likely to be placed on standby to collect UK citizens and return them to Britain in quarantine conditions.

[Raebie]

What about drinking nothing but water infused with oregano oil for one week?

This would cause the symptomatic individual to hemorrhage blood and water infused with oregano.

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I shouldn’t be laughing...

[353FMG]

Can you say CHANGE as in hope and change?

[SisterK]

Now the mystery of the dead microbiologists becomes unraveled.

[kaila]

I have read that they are going to bring back the 2 Americans to Emory University Hospital. Although I admire these two people for making a selfless decision to go to Africa, it is not fair to the medical /nursing staff at Emory to risk their lives because these two people made this decision to treat Ebola patients. I am a nurse, I would risk my life to treat a disease running through my community. I do protest in being forced by hospital administration to treat an African virus. The nurses and staff at Emory did not get the choice to put their lives at risk. I sincerely hope they walk out. Take these patients to a CDC level 4 bio hazard lab. Hospitals are not set up for this. Leave them in Africa. They made their decision, live by it.

[Kackikat]

Amazing isn’t it?

[riri]

I forgot about that.

It is so hard to keep up with everything. It seems every week there is, at least, one major development, move, etc. and it's been this way for six years. I forget about stuff all the time and then I am, like, "Ohhhh, yeah, that's right, there was THAT..."

Crazy times.

[gitmo]

You need both. Blood transfusions and massive IVs of Ringer’s Solution.

[gitmo]

I hears a doctor last night say it is 90% fatal with treatment.

[kalee]

I read the other day that this is not associated with eating bush meat, is that incorrect?

[Kozak]

Not smart.

[Kozak]

Oh brother are you wrong.

[Kozak]

And ventilators. And pressor meds. And platelets. And clotting factors. Etc etc etc.

[kaila]

Not to mention dialysis if the patients go into renal failure.

[CorporateStepsister]

The natives would have to trust us. Regrettably they still think the worst of us. So they won’t listen to us even if we had the cure waving right in front of their faces.

[CorporateStepsister]

I agree; make them get treated in Africa, or take them to the CDC “Hammer” and make them experience treatment there. It’s these idiot do-gooders who are bringing this disease back.

[CorporateStepsister]

Cameron is too busy toadying to the Windsors to care about the British citizenry.

[CorporateStepsister]

Yes it is; some have survived, but the Ebola remains in their system for the rest of their lives. Bodily fluids.

[steve86]

but the Ebola remains in their system for the rest of their lives. Bodily fluids.

Don't know about the rest of their lives. Researchers were somewhat surprised to detect virus after 61 days in an Ebola survivor.

[kaila]

The first rule of medicine is to do no harm.
You have do gooders, who wanted to help, knowing the risk.
Now, they get the disease, and want to come back to share their virus with the United States.
By traveling to Africa to treat Ebola, and then trying to come back here for treatment ,they wind up causing harm to the U.S.
I also do not understand what they were going to accomplish by going to Africa in the first place. A disease with a 60-90% death rate is going to kill most patients. An IV is not going to cure them.
Military surrounding the outbreaks and preventing infected people from leaving would have been the best.Quarantine was the only solution.
Leave them food outside the sick villages , and that is it.
if they want to be primitive and eat monkeys and bats, then they reap the consequences.
Now, we may be paying the price for do gooders and primitive people.
Patients need to boycott Emory. I would not go there as a patient when they are treating Ebola.
Maybe if they took a financial hit, they would not be so willing to accept an infectious disease that could spread to their staff, and possibly to the outside community.
I am willing to bet right now there is a lot of nurses and doctors at Emory who are now scared and pissed off because their administration made this decision.I hope they quit.,
If this disease was already here, i could understand their decision, but this disease is being imported. Not right.

[CorporateStepsister]

I think ti’s time to start making them own up to their choices.

They want to go to Africa and be a savior, stay in Africa if you become infected.

You go eat monkey meat, don’t blame anyone else if you die.

Africans even now refuse to learn and refuse to stop eating bats and bush meant, which cause the disease to jump to humans.

We should contain it by keeping every sick person in Africa.

We should also set conditions for non-interference; they want our help, they can get out of our way and stop this clannishness.