Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow hospital

[Headie]

A healthcare worker who has just returned from West Africa has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in hospital in Glasgow.

The woman, who arrived from Sierra Leone on Sunday night, is in isolation at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital.

All possible contacts with the case are being investigated, including on flights to Scotland via Heathrow.

The woman will be transferred to specialist high level isolation in London as soon as possible.

At a news conference in Glasgow, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon stressed that the risk to the general public was very low.

She added that the patient was thought to have had contact with only one other person since arriving in the city, but that all passengers on the flights the woman took will be traced.

Alisdair MacConachie, of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said the woman was "not showing any great clinical concern".

NHS Scotland said infectious diseases procedures had been put into effect at the Brownlee Unit for Infectious Diseases at Gartnavel.

The patient returned to Scotland from Sierra Leone late on Sunday via Casablanca and London Heathrow, arriving into Glasgow Airport on a British Airways flight at about 23:30.

While public health experts have emphasised that the risks are negligible, a telephone helpline has been set up for anyone who was on the BA 1478 Heathrow to Glasgow flight. The number is: 08000 858531

The patient was admitted to hospital early in the morning after feeling unwell and was placed into isolation at 07.50.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30628349

Welp isn't like half of TiBB Scottish :worry:

[LukeB]

:worry:

[Samm]

Praying it doesn't spread

[jackc1806]

pray4firewire :joker:

[Ninastar]

RIP zee and Jonathan

[MB.]

Finally, we've got to the heart of the matter

thank god lateysha and jenna will be okay

(:worry:)

[Vicky.]

Why the hell arent these people being tested when they return from there?

[Crimson Dynamo]

some twat goes there and gets it

wow

[Headie]

some twat goes there and gets it

wow

Yes because being a healthcare worker and trying to help suffering people in other countries makes you such a twat...

[Jamesy]

I think the health sectary said a few months back it's impossible to be able to test everyone that comes from Africa. The whole testing at airports thing is very much dependent on the passengers offering themselves to be tested. Seems easy enough for someone to sift through.

All the main hospitals and local authorities are well prepared so this is nothing to worry about.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Yes because being a healthcare worker and trying to help suffering people in other countries makes you such a twat...

stay here and help people in the uk. leave Africa to AFRICA

[Headie]

stay here and help people in the uk. leave Africa to AFRICA

Isolationism will get you nowhere.

[Samm]

stay here and help people in the uk. leave Africa to AFRICA

Why help people here when there's not a problem yet? While in Africa the problem is there, if you stop the source it stops the spread

[Headie]

Why help people here when there's not a problem yet? While in Africa the problem is there, if you stop the source it stops the spread

:clap1:

[LukeB]

RIP zee and Jonathan

r.i.p Josy

[Shaun]

I've just deleted Greg from facebook as a precautionary measure

[Shaun]

Why help people here when there's not a problem yet? While in Africa the problem is there, if you stop the source it stops the spread

I think he means help out at home - with the homeless, or the elderly, or impoverished in the UK. Which is fair enough really.

[Firewire]

pray4firewire :joker:

s0b

RIP zee and Jonathan

it was nice knowing you

I've just deleted Greg from facebook as a precautionary measure

it's for the best, I heard he actually went to the hospital to play ebola chicken

[Marc]

I've just deleted Greg from facebook as a precautionary measure

:laugh:

-shall do the same-

[Northern Monkey]

So wtf are'nt these people quaratined for a week or two before being allowed home?If they show symptoms over there then don't let them back until they're treated.Dumb asses.

[Firewire]

So wtf are'nt these people quaratined for a week or two before being allowed home?If they show symptoms over there then don't let them back until they're treated.Dumb asses.

They didn't have any symptoms until arriving back in the UK. They hadn't even been back 12 hours before they went to hospital.

[andybigbro]

I don't think it will spread. Well I hope not.

Hope they recover soon! :fc: :sad:

[Firewire]

They're being transported to an isolation unit in London

[Kizzy]

Glasgow is having a bad time... helicopters, bin wagons and now ebola :/

[lily.]

I've just deleted Greg from facebook as a precautionary measure

This made me literally laugh out loud..

[arista]

I've just deleted Greg from facebook as a precautionary measure


Yes best to be on the safe side

[Northern Monkey]

They didn't have any symptoms until arriving back in the UK. They hadn't even been back 12 hours before they went to hospital.
But before they're allowed back.All they need to do is keep them quarantined away from anyone with ebola for a period of time to give the symptoms time to show.Maybe a week or two.If they're ok then let them come back,If not don't let them back until they're treated.

[Vicky.]

I think the health sectary said a few months back it's impossible to be able to test everyone that comes from Africa. The whole testing at airports thing is very much dependent on the passengers offering themselves to be tested. Seems easy enough for someone to sift through.

All the main hospitals and local authorities are well prepared so this is nothing to worry about.

It shouldn't be tbh. I know we are all 'omg human rightz' about everything, but with something like this...I think its fair to force people to be tested. If they want to play russian roulette then fair enough, but its not fair to risk the health of others they come into contact with

[kirklancaster]

I've just deleted Greg from facebook as a precautionary measure

FFS Shaun - Wet meself :joker:

[kirklancaster]

But before they're allowed back.All they need to do is keep them quarantined away from anyone with ebola for a period of time to give the symptoms time to show.Maybe a week or two.If they're ok then let them come back,If not don't let them back until they're treated.

:clap1: Common sense from the Eyeball.

I was virtually called an idiot on an earlier thread for claiming Ebola could easily come to the UK, and also berated when I said that 'voluntary form filling' at airports was a joke as a 'preventative security measure'.

Who's the idiot now?

[kirklancaster]

It shouldn't be tbh. I know we are all 'omg human rightz' about everything, but with something like this...I think its fair to force people to be tested. If they want to play russian roulette then fair enough, but its not fair to risk the health of others they come into contact with

:clap1: I totally agree.

[Jamesy]

It shouldn't be tbh. I know we are all 'omg human rightz' about everything, but with something like this...I think its fair to force people to be tested. If they want to play russian roulette then fair enough, but its not fair to risk the health of others they come into contact with

Yeah I agree

Although I guess for them to force it at the major UK airports it would involve a lot of planning and a lot of people to be employed to operate tests in airports, clearly something the UK government aren't willing to finance. Around 1000+ people a month arrive from countries effected by Ebola, so it would be an enormous and hefty operation to have every single person monitored off these flights

I doubt they will go down the forced route until we have a potential outbreak in the UK

[Crimson Dynamo]

http://drawception.com/pub/panels/2012/4-4/9gj6NYqyTD-6.png

[Kizzy]

She was tested, in Morocco before her connecting flight to the UK.

[Northern Monkey]

:clap1: Common sense from the Eyeball.

I was virtually called an idiot on an earlier thread for claiming Ebola could easily come to the UK, and also berated when I said that 'voluntary form filling' at airports was a joke as a 'preventative security measure'.

Who's the idiot now?

I agree.I've been saying this from the start.Nothing gets done until its "Oh ****,Maybe we did'nt do enough"

Prevention is better than the cure.Imo.

[GypsyGoth]

Hopefully the musicians of africa will release a charity single to help scotland.

[Ammi]

..*will contact Annie Lennox..*...

[Firewire]

She's not African :fist:

[Ammi]

..yeah but some of the African musicians dropped out because of illness...(was a joke, sorry..)...

[Firewire]

Shocking, Ammi

[Ammi]

..don't know what came over me there, Selena...

[arista]

New Update
she has now been reported as getting worse
and is now Critical.


http://news.sky.com/story/1401552/british-ebola-nurse-now-critical-in-hospital

[Kizzy]

Earlier this week Dr Michael Jacobs, who has been involved in Ms Cafferkey's treatment, said she had been sitting up and talking - adding she was able to read, eat and drink and had spoken to her family.

However, he revealed the hospital was unable to obtain ZMapp, the drug used to treat fellow British volunteer nurse William Pooley, who recovered, because "there is none in the world at the moment".

This is really odd.... I saw a news report that suggested that they were rushing a vaccine, my guess? It's being held ransom to the highest bidder.

[arista]

its a USA made drug