Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow

[lemons]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30628349

A healthcare worker who has just returned from West Africa has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in hospital in Glasgow.
The woman, who arrived from Sierra Leone on Sunday night, is in isolation at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital.
All possible contacts with the case are being investigated, including on flights to Scotland via Heathrow.
The woman will be transferred to specialist high level isolation in London as soon as possible.

I thought they were doing checks at Heathrow airport? Obviously not doing a good job

[Hannah]

...and so it begins.

Was probably their usual 'checks' - only those 'suspected' of having it.

[Lewis]

oh dear, hopefully they actually quarantine her properly...

[David]

send her back

[Kimmy]

Apparently she's been sent to London now?

[-:Undertaker:-]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30628349

I thought they were doing checks at Heathrow airport? Obviously not doing a good job

This country doesn't check anything incoming (hence the million+ illegal immigrants here) only the law abiding British subjects are checked who are felt up, passports swiped by mean clipped-haired women in passport security along with strigent checks against people bringing back booze & ciggies.

Controlling our borders and preventing dangerous diseases over making sure the public are ripped off with our alcohol+cigarette prices? Never!

[AgnesIO]

This country doesn't check anything incoming (hence the million+ illegal immigrants here) only the law abiding British subjects are checked who are felt up, passports swiped by mean clipped-haired women in passport security along with strigent checks against people bringing back booze & ciggies.

Controlling our borders and preventing dangerous diseases over making sure the public are ripped off with our alcohol+cigarette prices? Never!

Evidently you don't fly into the UK very often.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Evidently you don't fly into the UK very often.

Whenever I fly back in all they seem interested in is booze and cigs, with random checks in the suitcases as you walk out.

Our border force is a farce, you only have to watch UK Border Force to realise that. It's slapstick. I once watched, with my jaw dropping open, an illegal immigrant being stopped and questioned (who claimed he was like 16 but was in his late 30s) so guess what they did? Sure they have to check his claims etc, but they went and put him in....... a house in central London. A HOUSE. At the end of the programme it was revealed (surprise surprise) that he had disappeared that very night. Morons of the highest level, zero faith in these clowns.

[AgnesIO]

Whenever I fly back in all they seem interested in is booze and cigs, with random checks in the suitcases as you walk out.

Our border force is a farce, you only have to watch UK Border Force to realise that. It's slapstick.

Never had my bag checked for booze and cigs, despite always having a generous selection. Getting through Heathrow was an absolute breeze (no staff member needed; electronic passport). Meanwhile, there are long queues for both foreigners and the rest of the Brits.

Border security is an absolute farce; but not because of illegals lol

[-:Undertaker:-]

Never had my bag checked for booze and cigs, despite always having a generous selection. Getting through Heathrow was an absolute breeze (no staff member needed; electronic passport). Meanwhile, there are long queues for both foreigners and the rest of the Brits.

Border security is an absolute farce; but not because of illegals lol

There's an estimated 1 million+ illegals in this country. That could be the dictionary definition of a farce.

In terms of the Ebola people coming in, hey you can't check everything when it comes to diseases but what I don't understand is the selfishness of all these people going to these countries (Doctors especially who are supposed to be educated) who then come back and don't subject themselves to quarantine: not only threatening their direct relatives and friends, but their neighbourhood and nation as a whole. Quarantine should be compulsory from these areas.