Posted on 08/04/2014 4:08:47 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
Emirates has become the first major airline to halt flights to Guinea, in the west African region affected by the recent Ebola outbreak. Upon announcing the stoppage of service, the airline said, "The safety of our passengers and crew is of the highest priority and will not be compromised."
The International Air Transport Associartion (IATA) and World Health Organization (WHO) each provide guidelines for airlines for pre-flight health screenings. An IATA spokesman said, "There has never been a case of contracting Ebola from being on a plane – it's extremely unlikely." The west African nations of Liberia and Sierra Leone are also within the region affected by the outbreak. Last Wednesday, Sierra Leone declared a state of emergency, and as of Thursday, WHO was not recommending travel restrictions or border closures.
(Excerpt) Read more at flightclub.jalopnik.com ...
Ping...
I thought there wasn’t a risk???
begin cutting flights? Or can’t find anyone willing to man the planes...
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Of course not, you sillies. From another thread today, Dr. Nancy Snyderman said that it's not an airborne disease so flying is safe.
You would be risking passengers, crew, the very aircraft, and your company to continue operations there.
As the kids say these days...
Dr. Nancy Snyderman said that it’s not an airborne disease so flying is safe.
Right, I just flew in from Omaha and boy are my
arms tired....
They’re all idiots.
It’s not the plane, it’s the passengers. And now that Ebola has moved out from impoverished non-flying peasants in remote villages in the bush and into the sphere of urban business travelers, it’s a whole different ball game.
Too late.
“Nigeria’s largest airline, Arik Air, has stopped flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone. Nigeria has also banned African airline Asky from its airspace for bringing a case of Ebola into Lagos. Ghana has banned flights from the Ebola-affected region as well.”
Yet this regime invites whole delegations to D.C. from areas of known outbreaks.
If I were in a flight crew I wouldn’t board a plane going to one of those hell-holes. Not until this crap is behind them.
Did a report not come out yesterday or the day before that the guy that helped the diplomat off the plane now has Ebola???? Gee, sounds like someone on the plane has Ebola now.
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Lagos (AFP) - Nigerian authorities said Monday that a doctor in Lagos has contracted Ebola, the second case in the sprawling megacity as the deadliest ever outbreak of the disease continues to spread fear and panic across west Africa.
The confirmation that a fourth doctor had been infected comes as fear and anger about the dead being left unburied in Liberia’s capital Monrovia brought protestors into the streets, while Sierra Leone’s president said Monday that the epidemic threatened the “very essence” of the nation.
“This new case is one of the doctors who attended to the Liberian Ebola patient who died,” Nigeria’s Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told journalists.
He said that 70 other people believed to have come into contact with the Liberian government official were being monitored.
http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-says-doctor-treated-ebola-victim-contracted-virus-004047580.html
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