British Army nurse with Ebola flown back to the UK by the Royal Air Force.

[Talk Wrench]

From the Daily Mail,

A British Army nurse who has been diagnosed with Ebola has been flown back to the UK for specialist treatment, alongside two of her colleagues who could have contracted the disease.
A specially-equipped RAF C17 aircraft was last night dispatched to Sierra Leone to take the female nurse and her fellow medics for treatment at Royal Free hospital in London, the only place in the country equipped to handle highly infectious diseases.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...worker-Sierra-Leone-tests-positive-Ebola.html

 

[SORRY CJ]

Good on her for going out and helping....Good on the C17 boys and girls for a quick turn round.......and good on the Royal.
Hope she will be ok.
Respect
Mr SCJ

 

[penfold93]

The special part of the C-17 was the 30 odd RAF medical personel that manned the air transportable isolators that brought these people back safetly and ensured that the winged master race, the ac and the rest of the country were not put at risk a fact that get regularly missed from these reports.

 

[Talk Wrench]

The special part of the C-17 was the 30 odd RAF medical personel that manned the air transportable isolators that brought these people back safetly and ensured that the winged master race, the ac and the rest of the country were not put at risk a fact that get regularly missed from these reports.

Sadly, you are correct. It's the guysand gals who make it work but that doesn't seem to matter to the press.

 

[Mag2grid]

good effort by all.

 

[propersplitbrainme]

I knew I shouldn't have scrolled down and started reading the comments at the foot of the story. There are times when I utterly despair of the attitudes and sheer ignorance of people in this country.
Every wonder why you bother? Or bothered?

 

[Talk Wrench]

I knew I shouldn't have scrolled down and started reading the comments at the foot of the story. There are times when I utterly despair of the attitudes and sheer ignorance of people in this country.
Every wonder why you bother? Or bothered?

Yup! Sheer ingorance of the sheerest type. Daily Wail comments can be better than Viz at times.

 

[Mag2grid]

Regrettably the Daily Fail does seem to reflect the attitude of the uninformed. Got into a debate (for my sins) at work with a client who said we shouldn't bother trying to sort out the Ebola problem. When I explained its preventative, Africa has the loosest boarder controls in the world, if you don't try treat it "at source" there is a real risk of someone boarding a freighter and transitting to Europe or the UK infecting 100's on the way through shared communal facilities, sexual activities and general contact.

Sadly it went over his head....l

 

[Talk Wrench]

When I explained its preventative, Africa has the loosest boarder controls in the world, if you don't try treat it "at source" there is a real risk of someone boarding a freighter and transitting to Europe or the UK infecting 100's on the way through shared communal facilities, sexual activities and general contact.

Sadly it went over his head....l

Which is exactly why Western Europe needs to get rid of Schengen. And pronto. Open borders could mean uncontrolled transmission.

 

[Gord]

Ignorance is the enemy, ignorance of the symptoms of this disease in the first place and how easily it can be transmitted from one person to another through sexual contact. Similar to the AIDS epidemic also in Africa where those infected are not aware and so go about their lives inadvertantly exposing hundreds if not thousands to the disease. Of course it has to be stopped at it's source and those who are exposed to it in the course of their duty should be given the very best care available but the people of the countries where such diseases are prone to occur also need to be educated as to it's symptoms and how to avoid contracting it, a difficult thing to do in a continent where so much superstition and mumbo jumbo is still running rife.

 

[Mag2grid]

Factor in they stone or kill the infected in some villages if they are found to be infected....

 

[firestorm]

Factor in they stone or kill the infected in some villages if they are found to be infected....

Can you back that statement up with a reliable source?

 

[Mag2grid]

Yes:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...ortedly-killed-in-cold-blood-by-villagers-in/

 

[Gord]

Yes:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...ortedly-killed-in-cold-blood-by-villagers-in/

That report was made last September and falls into the superstition and education problem I mentioned before where people are blaming the aid workers for the spread of the disease, simply because they are uneducated and some ****** of a tribeal leader has planted seeds of stupid ideas in their heads.

Although this report has quoted reliable news sources, in general I wouldn't believe anything that came out of Fux News and Bill O'Reilly in particular. Or is that Bill, Oh Really?