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Update, 10.29am: Medics rule out suspected Ebola in Dublin patient>
THE HSE HAS said today that it has not been notified of any official suspected case of Ebola in a Dublin hospital – but that it could not rule out that the virus was being looked at earlier this morning as one of several possibilities for a patient being treated there.
TheJournal.ie has confirmed with hospital sources this morning that a patient who had recently travelled abroad was being investigated as having a suspected virus. He is suffering from flu-like symptoms and consultants had been looking at Ebola as one of the possibilities.
A HSE spokesperson told TheJournal.ie that there is no confirmed case this morning. They also say that there is no ‘official’ suspected case of Ebola. The HSE has confirmed that the WHO guidelines are in place in Ireland and in line with this, there are specific steps that need to be followed by a hospital should they have a suspected case. This includes notifying HPSC and referring samples for lab tests.
These steps were not been taken in this case but the HSE could not rule out that Ebola is was not being “considered” among a range of possibilities to explain the man’s symptoms. The patient was being treated using barrier nursing methods.
A source in the Mater Hospital also confirmed early this morning that a room was being prepared in the National Isolation Unit for a potential arrival. However, the decision was made not to transfer him as consultants continued their investigations in a restricted area in the initial hospital where the man was admitted. The Mater has said that it is not expecting any patient transfer.
Ebola is a highly infectious virus and this is the first suspected case in the country. So far over 1,000 people have died across West Africa from the disease. Yesterday the WHO warned that the outbreak was worse than previously thought.
Unlike other infections like influenza, Ebola is not airborne. It can only be transmitted by direct contact with the body fluids of a person who has the disease.
- Additional reporting by Aoife Barry.
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My dishwasher is ok, needs an odd roar at her now and again but I dont think she would set fire to anything :-)
Keep roaring at her, and she might ;-)
Yeah, probably you David.
Now now Brendan I hope you arent having mental images of me in one of them aprons that looks like in a semi naked woman :-D
Well I wasn’t….
It can cook the dinner and wash the plates at the same time.. Nice one
Nice, something that has water running through it can catch fire
When it’s drying the dishes there’s no water running through it.
Yeah I do know that. Unfortunately my dishwasher has forgotten how to do that little task
My dishwasher likes to give out to me for not putting my socks in the wash basket and also likes watching soaps when there is champions league football on.
No fear of my Dishwasher going on fire !!
Marshmallow.
no, there’s a chance she might overheat though! :)
She hasnt overheated since the wedding night Martina…
well Marshmallow! your doing something wrong then! you might need to fiddle around with some of the dials and make sure your pressing the start button correctly!! ;)
HOTPOINT …..what a name !
Cheers for concern but my dishwasher is just fine! it has a tap, a sink and I don’t overheat too much. :)
I had a Hotpoint DWF30 dishwasher a few years ago that went on fire. Thankfully I was there at the time. I noticed the flames inside the panel first, but in the short time it took to pull it out the flames had melted the top away. Guarantee you I wasn’t the only person with this particular model that went on fire. Last resort for these companies is a product recall.
The DWF30 has been identified in UK forums as also having this problem – same dodgy printed circuit board fro Bosch.
This was highlighted on the consumer show two weeks ago!
Showed the results of dishwasher fire in a woman’s kitchen, catastrophic!
That was BOSCH not hotpoint.
BOSCH made dishwashers for Indesit, Hotpoint etc. Also it seems (don’t know for sure) that Hotpoint may have made machines in their own factory in UK but likely used components and the printed circuit board under suspicion from BOSCH.
I didn’t specify manufacturer, the results of a fire from any dishwasher would be the same!
Not a nice thing to come home too, if your house has been ruined by an electrical appliance catching fire!
This information has been given out because of the programme, until it was highlighted the manufactures were not going to issue either a warning notice in the country!
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