Norwegian working for Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone infected with Ebola. Being transported
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[quote](Reuters) - A Norwegian working for Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone was infected with Ebola virus and will be brought home for the treatment, the organization said on Monday.
The worker was placed in isolation on Sunday after she developed a fever, the organization said. Tests confirmed she was infected with the virus. She is the first Norwegian victim of the disease.
"We are working to get our colleague back home as soon as possible," said Anne Cecilie Kaltenborn, a Norwegian representative of the group, which is known by its French initials, MSF.[/quote]
[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/06/us-heatlh-ebola-norway-idUSKCN0HV1IT20141006[/url]
Every news outlet here is going crazy right now, not exactly helping to calm down the all the people who are scared, even if the risk of this spreading any further is pretty much nothing.
All I can say is prepare for the public to freak the fuck out about it just like in the US
better idea: transport him to the US since it's already been done that way before, no need to bring it anywhere else.
She'll be fine, every ebola victim in a first world country has been quarantined and treated appropriately back to full health.
Even if they are being quarantined and treated appropriately in first-world countries, I still think it's a bad idea to bring ebola patients out of Africa and back to their homes. It may sound extreme, but we really should've sealed Africa off from all travel, imports, and exports until the outbreak was over. There'd be less people flipping their shit and fewer/no victims of the disease in first-world countries in the first place.
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;46167837]Even if they are being quarantined and treated appropriately in first-world countries, I still think it's a bad idea to bring ebola patients out of Africa and back to their homes. It may sound extreme, but we really should've sealed Africa off from all travel, imports, and exports until the outbreak was over. There'd be less people flipping their shit and fewer/no victims of the disease in first-world countries in the first place.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, why didn't we just completely seal off the second most populous continent in the world, the one containing 54 separate countries and 15% of the total human population? Gosh, hindsight sure is 20/20!
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Trust those damn bureaucratic idiots to do the less efficient thing and just treat the comparatively tiny, almost thimble-like proportion of Western people infected with ebola, instead of simply cutting off one of the biggest landmasses in the world! The scoundrels! The fools!
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