Sheffield NHS Trust on standby for Ebola patients.

[MJ01]

In my opinion the ebola centre should be o

 

Think about it......

[Maldav]

Ok. Imagine this scenario. An infected person comes into this country and proves possibly infected. Do the rest of the passengers then have to go into quarantine? The clearance should be proved before the flight, not after.

[aussie85]

What? You would protest AGAINST treating people for an infectious disease?

You'd rather it was left to spread?

Are you really that stupid?

 

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It has already spread to Spain, USA and Australia. It is transferred extremely easily. It will almost certainly reach the UK soon.

 

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I've reported your terrorist threat the police.

 

 

Actually it has not reached Australia. The nurse that came back from working in Sierra Leone has been tested and they came back this morning as negative.

 

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Ok. Imagine this scenario. An infected person comes into this country and proves possibly infected. Do the rest of the passengers then have to go into quarantine? The clearance should be proved before the flight, not after.

 

 

Incubation period is 8-21 days. You are infections when showing symptoms. You also only catch if you come into contact with the infected persons vomit, blood or faeces or if you touch the infected persons dead body. You can not catch it from sitting near them. I think airports in the us are adding new screening to their airports. But I do agree that testing needs to be done before getting on a flight it's best to safe than sorry. Not all people follow the guidelines set where you have to quarantine yourself at home and monitor your temperature (the first symptom).

 

If people are so freaked out about how they could catch it then please go and research it. There's no use in worrying about catching it when you don't know how it spreads.

Edited October 10, 2014 by aussie85

[Mr Bloom]

You seem to be questioning the wisdom of managing potential patients with an infectious disease at one of the national infectious disease units! How else would you suggest these patients were managed? At a purpose built unit in the middle of nowhere, staffed by specialist staff from where exactly....??? The time and expense of building and staffing this would be imense, and completely unnecessary.

 

Do you realise that patients with highly infectious diseases are already being treated at the Hallamshire and they are very good at doing it! This is presumably why the decision was made dont you think?

 

No, actually, I have no idea of the effectiveness of the RH at controlling highly infectious diseases, I do not have any statistics to make a comparison. That's why I asked the questions about it in my OP.

 

I'm sure though, if there are NHS staff willing to travel to Africa to treat patients, then some will be prepared to treat patients in the UK outside of our major cities.

[Coxy]

No, actually, I have no idea of the effectiveness of the RH at controlling highly infectious diseases, I do not have any statistics to make a comparison. That's why I asked the questions about it in my OP.

 

I'm sure though, if there are NHS staff willing to travel to Africa to treat patients, then some will be prepared to treat patients in the UK outside of our major cities.

 

But these facilities don't exist outisde of major cities, and might never be needed, and wouldn't be able to manage patients who required intensive care, or have labs to process blood results etc... etc.. Unless you are proposing building new hospitals in the middle of nowhere with a full compliment of staff sitting there waiting, just in case?

[AndrewC]

what i saw on the news today there was a bloke using a hand held led temperture thingy, clicking it at every passenger see if it reads normal body heat, if thats it, pretty fast

 

Thanks; that is presumably just a temperature gauge though. Better than nothing though, I'd say. Anyone with a very high temperature clearly potentially has some kind of virus.

[Mr Bloom]

But these facilities don't exist outisde of major cities, and might never be needed, and wouldn't be able to manage patients who required intensive care, or have labs to process blood results etc... etc.. Unless you are proposing building new hospitals in the middle of nowhere with a full compliment of staff sitting there waiting, just in case?

 

Of course not, and there's no need for staff to be sat their waiting, I presume that there are staff who have volunteered to be part of a disaster response team and are already trained and there are disaster response procedures pretty much in place anyway.

 

As for facilities, I would envisage (I may be wrong), that like staff, the majority of necessary equipment to treat infectious diseases is transferable, and even pop-up hospitals are a reality, if a suitable enough building really couldn't be found.

 

http://www.buildingbetterhealthcare.co.uk/technical/article_page/The_emergence_of_popup_hospitals/95175

[Tommo68]

The patients are quarantined to within an inch of their life, dont worry, we arent all going to suddenly catch it.

 

I admire your confidence though I fear it is very misplaced.

 

I do most sincerely hope you are right...

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[jemm]

I think it's all terrifying. I mean, what happens if there is a breakout and it does spread?

 

I've spoken to a few people about this but have been told 'not to worry'

[sgtkate]

If you do get it, you can't do much about it, so there's little point in worrying. Unless you want to totally shut yourself off from the rest of the world you have a small risk of catching it, exactly the same as anyone does. But you have a much higher risk or being hit by a car, getting cancer, AIDs or even being murdered than you do of catching Ebola.