MORE ON EBOLA OUTBREAK
Since I put a recent post up about this things have become worse. I see where two doctors who went over to Liberia to help out
"Washington: Two Americans involved in the treatment of Ebola victims in Liberia have become infected with the West African epidemic.
As of July 20, the number of Ebola cases recorded in the months-long epidemic was 1093, including more than 660 deaths in the worst outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever on record, according to the WHO.
Dr Kent Brantly, a former GP in Fort Worth, Texas, became the third senior doctor in less than a week to fall ill with the virus he was trying to treat in others. Dr Samuel Brisbane, from Liberia, died on Saturday at a clinic in the country's capital, Monrovia.
Sierra Leone's leading Ebola specialist, Dr Sheikh Umar Khan, also tested positive last week, and is being treated at a Medecins Sans Frontieres clinic. He is expected to survive."
I did hear the wife of the doctor and his children flew home a week ago but they are being monitored as it does take time for ebola to show up.
Goodness knows why he would take his family there in the first place?
I certainly hope that authorities at airports are being extra vigilant as it would only take one infected person to spread this terrible thing around the world.
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Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-doctor-contracts-ebola-as-virus-spreads-20140728-zxhvf.html#ixzz38k2hG9Oc
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The girls are from a family of five who had arrived back in Australia on Etihad Airways flight EY460 after spending time in the West African country of Guinea.
Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/health/2015/02/26/10/45/two-children-reportedly-being-tested-for-ebola-in-melbourne#ORtmiTx6PypJOUMX.99
Although now several Australians have been tested for Ebola since the deadly outbreak in West Africa last year, there have been no positive results recorded in Australia.
What is going on ???
Is the Government playing Russian Roulette with our lives ???
Surely all visiting countries that are afflicted by this terrible virus should have to go into compulsory quarantine as part of procedure.
Once a cure is found it will be a different story.
I would be more than happy to go into involuntary quarantine if I was returning from Ebola infected areas. Surely it is commonsense on a number of fronts.