Further health worker with potential #Ebola exposure in Sierra Leone transported to UK for precautionary monitoring http://bit.ly/1bbBRAD
@NHS_Analyst The survival of an individual must come 2nd to the potential spread, surely? But how does allowing travel reduce exposure?
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@C7RKY because an infected individual held in a dedicated unit of a first world hospital is considerably less likely to infect others -
@NHS_Analyst So why not establish similar advanced facilities in the affected country, rather than allow possible disease to be transported? -
@C7RKY because that would be incredibly expensive and the risk to the UK popn of bringing them back is tiny -
@NHS_Analyst So it's essentially a financial decision? The relative risk of infected travel is debatable point, but both options have a cost -
@C7RKY so, depending upon what you consider the alternative, it is either cheaper or less risky to bring them home -
@NHS_Analyst As I think I've suggested - I don't accept that it's less risky. I've seen no evidence to support that assertion Tom. -
@C7RKY you don’t accept repatriated individual has higher chance of survival? Or you think that the risk of their infecting others is >? -
@NHS_Analyst Sorry, I mean risk of infecting others beyond the county already affected, would seem greater if transporting suspected victims
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