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HEATHROW AIRPORT IS to begin screening passengers for signs of Ebola today.
The announcement was made by Downing St last week, with a spokesperson saying that advice from the Chief Medical Officer was that “enhanced screening arrangements at the UK’s main ports of entry for people travelling from the affected regions – Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea – will offer an additional level of protection to the UK”.
Heathrow has not officially commented today on whether delays should be expected due to the new screening.
This enhanced screening was earmarked for implementation at Heathrow and Gatwick airports in London and Eurostar terminals.
Yesterday, the UK’s Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt told the House of Commons that the screening measures will begin at Heathrow today, beginning with Terminal 1.
They will be expanded by the end of next week to arrivals into Gatwick and on the Eurostar.
Enhanced assessment
It will involve assessing:
Passengers will have their temperature taken and complete a questionnaire. If neither of these raises concerns, they will be given advice on how to contact the NHS if they develop symptoms.
Hunt said:
Any passenger who reports recent exposure to people who may have Ebola, or symptoms, or who has a raised temperature will undergo a clinical assessment and, if necessary, will be transferred to hospital.
He said they expect the measures to reach 89% of travellers who have come to the UK from the affected region “on tickets booked for the UK” but he cautioned that “no screening procedure will be able to identify 100% of the people arriving from Ebola-affected countries”.
He explained this was due in large part to the fact that not all passengers leaving the countries will take connecting routes to the UK.
Downing St said that the overall risk to the public in the UK “continues to be very low”.
Meanwhile, the US and UN leaders called yesterday for “more robust” international efforts to tackle Ebola, after medics in Liberia demanded danger money to treat patients, AFP reports.
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It’s amazing to think the amount of species lost at the end of the last ice age. Some amazing animals we just missed out on by a heartbeat of seeing. Megatherium, a sloth the size of an elephant… Mammoths, sabre-toothed cats, etc.
This whole story is BS – we all know the earth is only 5000 years old.
4.6 billion*
says who?
The reason being that the planet was hit with multiple comets 1200 years apart 12000 years ago….wiped out a lot more than animals.
@ Anto Mahon
Believe it or not, it was actually an Irishman who claimed the world was less than 5000 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology
Lucky they were we probably would of just eat them or wore them.
@Talleyrand Frye good stuff pity he forgot to read Genesis 1:1 as this scripture shows that the earth could be billions of years old.
Its amazing to think in the last 40 years we have lost 50% of our worldwide wildlife http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/1409030-animals-wildlife-wwf-decline-science-world/
I heard Irish water cut them off for not paying
I think they had paid
Died of thirst waiting on the bar man in coppers
“All along these Mammoths where contributing to their own demise”. I wonder could man learn anything from that sentence
I could die of thirst with the price of beer
Again, this is a story abound a foreign country!
There never was – or never will be – any woolly mammoths in this catholic and holy country.
You will have to wait until SF/IRA get into power before we can expect total isolation from the outside world like N Korea.
Yes Leo – but, in the meantime, we have a language (Irish) that nobody else speaks and sports (GAA) that no-one else plays – so it’s a good start…
We also have our fair share of morons
Do you have to bring SF/IRA into a discussion about mammoths?
Leo is just butt hurt because he got his ass handed to him on another article about his bigotry, chap just isn`t very good at this posting lark, and tends to go from article to article spouting his crap
I think someone slagged off his Bowler hat that he was wearing a few weeks ago and he can`t seem to be able to keep it together since.
And SF/IRA never engaged in bigotry, bus?
You are Just like your mate Leo ,Dotrice
This article is about Mammoths, only the likes of you two could possibly drag bigotry, SF/IRA into it – Newsflash, you aren`t funny or controversial, or engaging
To put it simply, so your tiny little mind can understand,
You are just boring, repetitive and ridiculous.
I`d hazard a guess, that you are both the same person
Pathetic at best is how i would describe you
You brought up bigotry. Sad that insult is your only defense…☺
Last word
tool?
Not sure why we should feel sorry for them though seeing as they caused the ice-age in the first place.
Edna is a woolly mammoth!
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