[flamberge]

The article does not confirm a positive test for Ebola. The patient is in strict isolation, surrounded by a police detail.

Would the authorities ever admit to a positive diagnosis? Do the police have shoot-to-kill orders if the patient should attempt to leave quarantine?

We will be able to tell in two weeks. If the patient is still alive by then he is probably free of the disease. Presumably there will be a cheery follow-up announcement.

And if there is only silence - that will tell us something too.

[ChocChipCookie]

The headline should read Ebola Suspected in Hamburg. That’s the correct translation.

[MarMema]

I have been tracking these suspected cases. There were about 7 in the Phillipines -> no new news -
1 in Brazil -> "There is no risk of Ebola transmission in Brazil at this time, and neither is there a recommendation from the WHO to restrict travel or trade with the affected nations." (kinda reminds me of Jaws)

Another in Toronto, waiting on test results.

A positive and death in Morocco.

Where else? I saw something about South Africa as a possible but nothing new since then.

[Fire_on_High]

Shoot to kill, that’s brilliant...take a virus that hides out in every bodily fluid and spray a whole bunch of fluid and tissue around!

Killing someone to prevent them spreading it is frankly perfectly logical and sensible, but the bloodiest method possible is not.