Ebola: How well is the UK prepared?

Ebola: How well is the UK prepared?

The government expects a handful of cases of Ebola virus disease in the UK over the next three months and it hopes, through screening at airports and other points of entry, to identify passengers coming from the affected region (there are no direct flights and fewer than 1000 arrived via flights from other European capitals in September) who could develop the disease once in the UK, even if the...

Is the United States prepared for Ebola?

TheWestAfricanEbolaepidemic is ahumanitariancrisis and a threat to international security.1 It is not surprising that isolated cases have emerged in Europe and NorthAmerica,buta largeoutbreak in theUnitedStates, with its advancedhealth system, is unlikely. Yet thehandling of the first domestically diagnosed Ebola case in Dallas, Texas, raised concerns about national public health preparedness.W...

Second Ebola patient is treated in UK.

AUK nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has been admitted to the high level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London. The patient has been named as Pauline Cafferkey, a public health nurse at Blantyre Health Centre in South Lanarkshire. She returned to her home late in the evening on Sunday 28 December, having taken a flight from Casablanca to London Heathrow and the...

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

[How well-informed is the ophthalmology patient?].

BACKGROUND The patient responsibility concept is based on better informed patients who can shoulder the responsibility for their own health and who can discuss matters competently with their health care provider, becoming partners of their doctors in enabling them to make informed decisions about their medical care. Better patient information and more active participation is also often associat...