• Question: What would u do if someone in England got Ebola. If it was up to you

    Asked by Edith to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip, Theo on 11 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by [FaZe]xXx_$w3gBr0_69_xXx.
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      Alison Thomson answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      Hi Edith!
      I would have them quarantined so that they couldn’t infect anyone else! Then I would treat their symptoms so that they weren’t in too much pain. After that unfortunately I would just have to wait for a cure to be discovered!

      Good question Edith! Thanks!

      Ali

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      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      Umm, put them in hospital? Isolate them? Spend more on vaccine research? Lock myself in my house?
      Just to put things into perspective first, far more people in England die of car accidents than will ever die of Ebola. What do we do about car accidents? Is what we’re doing seriously reducing car accidents? There’s actually not a lot than one could do specifically for Ebola that isn’t already done for other contagious diseases.
      The first two answers above are the correct ones and the third we are presumably already doing, the fourth is plain dumb – unless that’s what I already do for fear of being run over by a car (much, much more likely).

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