and how about ED?
Roger
On 12 Oct 2014, at 01:29, Julian Bradley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Now acknowledged that contaminated surgeries would likely need to be closed - PHE will advise, thanks for response(s) here.
>
> Wikipedia now modified (not by me) to reflect uncertainty, backdated by them to 14th September, just a few days before my 17th.
>
> They attribute to Liberia, but over that time Sierra Leone figures wildly different from the 5 cases per hour suggested on TV. Who knows which if either is anywhere close?
>
> In my view exercises held today, and Sally Davies honesty that we may well have spill over cases here to be commended.
>
> J
>
> At 02:23 09/10/2014, you wrote:
>> Just to reflect that since around 17th September stats released by
>> WHO and on eg. Wikipedia have been manifestly less informative -
>> accepting all the limitations they had even before then.
>>
>> A question - in light of recent "advice".
>>
>> IF a patient turned up in your surgery, leant on to the reception
>> counter with sweaty hands and arms, and then discussed how ill they
>> felt, how they'd been feverish for a few days, and how they'd come
>> from W Africa 2 weeks ago, AFTER DOING THE NEEDFUL...
>>
>> what would you do about your reception counter?
>> how would your staff respond?
>> would you be able to continue seeing patients as normal?
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts on this.
>>
>> Julian
>>
>> >Additional website of interest (and possibly for other conditions as
>> >well as ebola):
>> >
>> >http://healthmap.org/ebola/
>> >
>> >Possible cases in Greece, Benin
>> >
>> >http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective
>> >
>> >Possible case in Brampton, Ontario
>> >
>> >http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/man-in-brampton-ont- being-tre=
>> >ated-for-ebola-like-symptoms/33689/
>> >
>> >All that said no transmission confirmed outside W Africa, and no 2nd
>> >generation transmission confirmed yet in Nigeria.
>> >
>> >BW,
>> >
>> >Julian
>> >
>> >
>> >Ebola related websites:
>> >
>> > >http://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/air/managing-sick-travelers/ebola-g uidance-ai=
>> >rlines.html
>> > >
>> > >http://salvationist.ca/2014/08/west-african-ebola-virus-outbreak/
>> >
>> >http://www.promedmail.org/
>> >
>> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_outbreak
|