Showing posts with label ebola. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebola. Show all posts

28 Feb 2016

Ebola nurse released from hospital - NOT amateur radio

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-35683091  .

The British nurse who was in hospital 3 times because of Ebola has been released from hospital. They say she is not infectious.

8 Jun 2015

Ebola - NOT amateur radio

Certainly here in the UK, and I suspect the USA, Ebola went out of the news late last year.  Although the West African outbreak was the worst on record, it is sad that it soon became not newsworthy. It looks like the outbreak is now under control but it is a sad indictment of our society that when things go "off the radar" we hear little about them. It is a warning that what is considered "news" is filtered.

As Steve G1KQH mentions in the comments there are always new deadly viruses to be worried about. Back in the 1950s it was polio, although thankfully that was largely beaten in the 1950s. Sadly it is still endemic in a few nations because of ignorance and politics.