{"id":16844,"date":"2014-12-30T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T11:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=16844"},"modified":"2014-12-30T11:51:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T11:51:19","slug":"ebola-case-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=16844","title":{"rendered":"Ebola Case In UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is what it feels like playing Russian Roulette – but with someone else holding the gun. There has been a confirmed case of Ebola in the UK<\/a>, brought back by a nurse from Sierra Leone.\"Russian<\/p>\n

There is now a mad panic trying to trace all the people who travelled with the woman – who returned to Glasgow via Casablanca and London, and who is now back in London for treatment.<\/p>\n

What is laughable are the comments by Paul Cosford of Public Health England:<\/p>\n

…the case did not “put anyone in the public domain at any significant risk”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, everyone in the UK is now at pretty much as at risk as the nurse, who was \u201cprotected\u201d by the same systems and technology that are now protecting us from her, and which failed. We\u2019re also subject to the same failings in screening that could allow any additional cases to spread the illness before they are identified.<\/p>\n

Cosford also seems to forget that scientists have been predicting that Ebola would reach Britain since at least October. And they were right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is what it feels like playing Russian Roulette – but with someone else holding the gun. There has been a confirmed case of Ebola in the UK, brought back by a nurse from Sierra Leone. There is now a mad panic trying to trace all the people who travelled with the woman – who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t