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Asked by Sneaky McStealth to Aaron, David, Elaine, Sarah, Zoe on 15 Nov 2014.
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David Foley answered on 15 Nov 2014:
The medical infrastructure in the UK is vastly superior to that found in regions where Ebola has taken hold. Our medical professionals have better training, equipment and diagnostic tools which would make a serious outbreak of Ebola in this country a very remote possibility.
Given that Ebola is actually not that infectious, it would be easy to control. Any persons diagnosed with Ebola would be treated under quarantine, those people they came into close and frequent contact with would be quarantined and observed and in this way the spread would be quickly contained.
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Sarah Ashwood answered on 15 Nov 2014:
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa does more to highlight how completely different their healthcare system is. Unfortunately as they are in a much poorer part of the world there are just not systems available to manage such an outbreak. Hospitals aren’t sterile environments, the equipment they have is limited and the medical training provided is of a lower standard.
Ebola is not a particularly strong virus – it cannot survive for long outside the body, is not airborne and as such is not actually that contagious. You can only contract Ebola through direct contact with bodily fluids of a victim. And even then it has to be at the time when they are contagious – which is only when they start showing symptoms.
If we ever had a case in the UK then it would be dealt with very quickly. Our healthcare system would mean that any persons diagnosed would be quarantined and the disease would be a lot easier to contain.
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Zoe Roberts answered on 17 Nov 2014:
We have an excellent healthcare system here in the U.K. The fact there has been an outbreak highlights the difference in the healthcare services. If we ever had an outbreak in the U.K. people infected would be treated appropriately in quarentee.
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