Ebola screening at LHR UK Border: starts Tuesday
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Last line of defence against UK! Ebola!! horror!!! - a piece of paper and a telephone
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I was under the impression that the 'facilities' had been installed ever since H1N1.....or whatever it was called. The white arches with IR sensors at the entrance to customs channels are the temperature monitoring points......unless of course I was sold a duff cookie on that one.
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was reading in the paper that the team doing tests at LHR consists of 3 people which hardly seems a lot to handle daily influx of passengers.
and the questionnaire sounds a bit like the US one: are you a criminal? do you have infectious diseases? etc
and the questionnaire sounds a bit like the US one: are you a criminal? do you have infectious diseases? etc
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Is there any clarity on where in the airport they are going to interview/test pax?
Logic would suggest testing as close to the arrivals gate as possible ... so that means they're probably going to do it after the baggage hall by the customs point
Logic would suggest testing as close to the arrivals gate as possible ... so that means they're probably going to do it after the baggage hall by the customs point
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Ebola screening at LHR UK Border: starts Tuesday
It's just the SN flights that are being targeted. It's now quite tricky to fly long haul from the 3 countries affected by the pandemic.
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Officials are meeting the SN flights, but according to the Telegraph version of this it is on a "haphazard and voluntary" basis. Officials are shaking the hands of those passengers they go to interview, though the WHO says that's not problematic for anyone not showing advanced symptoms. The checks at departure in Liberia are reported to be far tougher, as you would expect.
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Let me do your diagnosis by internet for you: you have man-flu (otherwise known by its technical term, the sniffles). The diagnosis of flu is that there is a 50 note fluttering around your back garden and you couldn't care less. Get well soon.
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UK Airport Questions
Coming from an African country do you have diarrhoea - hmmm, bet that symptom is unusual
After spending 10 hours or more on a plane plus several hours in airports having got up at some ungodly hour to travel to an airport do you have a headache, intense tiredness or exhaustion - hmmm, another rarity.
After time spent in unfamiliar buildings, trying to sleep in cattle class and using an aircraft loo do you have bruising - oh that's an unusual one
On a bad day I could have all the symptoms in section 4 without - ahem - breaking sweat.
Coming from an African country do you have diarrhoea - hmmm, bet that symptom is unusual
After spending 10 hours or more on a plane plus several hours in airports having got up at some ungodly hour to travel to an airport do you have a headache, intense tiredness or exhaustion - hmmm, another rarity.
After time spent in unfamiliar buildings, trying to sleep in cattle class and using an aircraft loo do you have bruising - oh that's an unusual one
On a bad day I could have all the symptoms in section 4 without - ahem - breaking sweat.
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I've just watched a news report on Sky News that said that the second nurse to be confirmed with Ebola flew her outgoing journey 4 days before and her homeward journey 1 day before presenting with Ebola symptoms, the report said that there was 'low risk' to the other passengers on the flight because she wasn't contagious when she flew..... The reporter then went on to say that she (and the first nurse that contracted the disease) came into contact with the Liberian man 3 days before he showed symptoms.... Surely this is a contradiction as to at what point the disease can be passed on?