[cripplecreek]

Virgin Atlantic cabin crew who came into contact with the woman have been told to monitor their health.

I'm not one to get excited about these things but in the case of something like ebola, I think they should do more than simply monitor their own health.

[VOA]

Now there's something scarier than "Snakes On A Plane" (upcoming movie).
Because it's real and could kill you.

[SIDENET]

Virgin Atlantic cabin crew who came into contact with the woman have been told to monitor their health.

Jeez, I hope that they have been quarantined.

[jeremiah]

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"US health officials stressed that there is no reason to restrict flights from other countries over health concerns" Back to our regularly scheduled program.

[tet68]

Vector Bump.

[fanfan]

Ping

[VOA]

When the Airbus A340-600, carrying 267 passengers and crew, touchdown
at Heathrow she was rushed to nearby Hillingdon Hospital, West London.

There's one Airbus that should be either hermetically sealed and
dropped into the Mariannas Trench.

Or burned to the ground in the sands of Syria.

[COEXERJ145]

Ebola isn't an airborne virus so the odds of it spreading are very slim. There is definitely no chance of it becoming a pandemic.

[A knight without armor]

Just the cabin crew? What about the person sitting next to her or just adjacent? I guess you have to actually touch her blood to get it.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Scary ping.

[headstamp]

"Virgin Atlantic cabin crew who came into contact with the woman have been told to monitor their health."

Excellent, let them march around in the general population for a while until they develop the proper symptoms.

[Walkingfeather]

God have mercy.... Not one of those passengers should be walking in public.

[Porterville]

We need to isolate the British and burn down their villages along with the french and belgiums.

[kenth]

Cabin crew and passengers rushed to her aid but towards the end of the flight she began to vomiting.

Since it's only being "reported" and only that her symptoms "matched" ebola, it very well may not be ebola. Here's hoping the diagnosis was rumored and wrong.

[VadeRetro]

I hate it when bad Tom Clancy novels come true.

[SuziQ]

If the passenger had just been to the doctor with flu-like symptoms the day before, it's doubtful her death a couple of days later was caused by ebola. It takes several days to a week for the 'bleeding-out' to manifest itself, and it doesn't sound like that much time had elapsed.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Ebola victims should be treated in Washington D.C. hospitals and hospices, with daily tours of the facilities for members of congress. Might cure the immigration mess.

[TheLion]

The people on the plane were breathing her air for a long time and those caring for her might have been exposed to her secretions....amazing that everyone wasn't quarantined....some info:


Contagion summary: People can be exposed to Ebola virus from direct contact with the blood and/or secretions of an infected person. This is why the virus has often been spread through the families and friends of infected persons: in the course of feeding, holding, or otherwise caring for them, family members and friends would come into close contact with such secretions. People can also be exposed to Ebola virus through contact with objects, such as needles, that have been contaminated with infected secretions. 1

Contagion discussion: Infection with Ebola virus in humans is incidental -- humans do not "carry" the virus. Because the natural reservoir of the virus is unknown, the manner in which the virus first appears in a human at the start of an outbreak has not been determined. However, researchers have hypothesized that the first patient becomes infected through contact with an infected animal. 1

Nosocomial transmission has been associated frequently with Ebola HF outbreaks. It includes both types of transmission described above, but it is used to describe the spread of disease in a health-care setting such as a clinic or hospital. In African health-care facilities, patients are often cared for without the use of a mask, gown, or gloves, and exposure to the virus has occurred when health care workers treated individuals with Ebola HF without wearing these types of protective clothing. In addition, when needles or syringes are used, they may not be of the disposable type, or may not have been sterilized, but only rinsed before re-insertion into multi-use vials of medicine. If needles or syringes become contaminated with virus and are then reused, numbers of people can become infected.

Ebola-Reston that appeared in a primate research facility in Virginia, may have been transmitted from monkey to monkey through the air in the facility. While all Ebola virus species have displayed the ability to be spread through airborne particles (aerosols) under research conditions, this type of spread has not been documented among humans in a real-world setting, such as a hospital or household.1
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/e/ebola/contagious.htm

[Calamari]

The results of a post mortem are awaited.

Appears that some testing still needs to be done to confirm Ebola or Marburg.

[JohnBovenmyer]

]If they caught on to the diagnosis and quickly, London should have the infrastructure to contain this. Quarantine and consider contagious ALL of them until the experts (there probably are some in London) declare them safe. Minimize interaction among the crew and passengers so as not to spread it further within that group. Be very careful not to spread it to the medical staff, a major problem in some outbreaks. Don't let the normal cleaning staff do the plane. It probably can be decontaminated and at least mostly salvaged, but let the experts think through the details first. Fortunately human Ebola, although potentially very contagious on contact, hasn't yet been contagious by air so those who had no contact with the victim will likely get off with just a bad scare and some travel delays.