Little Doubt of Ebola Hitting London: Mayor Boris Johnson ...

... said that there was little doubt that the Ebola virus could soon hit London and that airport screening of passengers traveling ... Ebola will come to UK and probably to London, says Boris Johnson. London mayor admits health checks at UK airports are 'far from perfect solution ...

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Little Doubt of Ebola Hitting London: Mayor Boris Johnson

Topic: Ebola Outbreak in West Africa

The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said that there was little doubt that the Ebola virus could soon hit London
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17:54 12/10/2014

Tags: ebola, UK Ministry of Defence, Boris Johnson, Sierra Leone, London, UK

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MOSCOW, October 12 (RIA Novosti) - The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said that there was little doubt that the Ebola virus could soon hit London and that airport screening of passengers traveling from the Ebola-hit West African countries was not a solution, The Telegraph said Sunday.
"I have no doubt; I have little doubt that eventually there will be a case of Ebola in this country and probably in this city. The idea of screening it at airports is far from perfect as a solution,” Johnson was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
"It's one of those cases where we are at risk of seeming to promise stuff that doesn't really make any sense. You can't blood test everybody coming into the country,” he added.
UK introduced the screening of passengers arriving at Heathrow, Gatwick and the Eurostar terminal, checking for symptoms and questioning the passengers from the three hardest-hit countries - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Meanwhile, the UK is planning to send a mission of 750 personnel from the Ministry of Defence to assist Sierra Leone’s government with the crisis. Among them will be more than 200 military staff that will run and staff the World Health Organization’s Ebola training facilities in Sierra Leone, the newspaper reported.
UK paramedics also performed drills on Saturday, on acting Ebola patients to enable readiness for dealing with a crisis should it arise.
Over 4,000 people have lost their lives in the epidemic and some 8,300 people are confirmed or suspected to have contracted the virus, according to the latest WHO estimates. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea account for 4,024 of the deaths.

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Little Doubt of Ebola Hitting London: Mayor Boris Johnson ...