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Updated 7.05pm
PAULINE CAFFERKEY, THE UK nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola, is said to be in “critical” condition.
She is currently receiving treatment in the Royal Free hospital in London, and in a statement on its website the hospital said today that her condition has deteriorated.
The statement reads:
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is sorry to announce that the condition of Pauline Cafferkey has gradually deteriorated over the past two days and is now critical.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said his thoughts and prayers are with Cafferkey:
Second patient being tested
A patient at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon is being tested for Ebola as a “precautionary measure”, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust confirmed this evening.
It said the patient has a history of travel to West Africa.
The Trust is awaiting the results of the sample, which is being screened for a variety of infectious diseases prevalent in the affected countries, one of which is Ebola.
The Trust said that the risk to people, other patients or visitors to the hospital is “very low”.
The patient is being kept in isolation as a precaution.
Pauline Cafferkey
On Wednesday, Cafferkey was “sitting up in bed, talking and reading”, and had agreed to take an experimental anti-viral drug.
Doctors said at the time that the following days would be “crucial”.
Pauline Cafferkey was a volunteer nurse in Sierra Leone with the charity Save the Children. When she arrived home to Glasgow on 28 December, she began displaying Ebola symptoms and was admitted to hospital.
She was then found to have contracted the deadly disease, and brought to London for treatment. She is being treated at the high level isolation unit at the Royal Free.
Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has said that authorities in Ireland are in daily contact with their counterparts in Britain as they monitor the ongoing situation.
Ebola scare
Meanwhile, Somalia has moved to reassure people that there was no outbreak of Ebola in the country. AFP reports that Health Minister Ali Mohamed Mohamud told reporters:
As soon as we heard the rumours of a case of Ebola virus in Somalia, we acted quickly and decisively to isolate the alleged victim, a Somali citizen named Abdulkadir Jinow Barow, and those who had been in contact with him.
Mohamud also hit out at ”irresponsible reporting without the checking of facts or sources by some elements of the media, combined with the wildfire spreading of rumours on social media”, saying the rumours “could have caused widespread panic” in the Horn of Africa nation.
“The man did not have the Ebola virus,” the minister told reporters, speaking alongside the purported Ebola victim — who also insisted he was “perfectly healthy”.
He has now been given the all clear and we can state categorically that there has been no outbreak of Ebola in Somalia.
The man who was falsely reported to have been infected with Ebola in Guinea, where he ran a business, said he was “very confused and upset” by the rumours.
- Additional reporting AFP
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That’s the problem with todays media reporting of live events, they are all so busy trying to get one up on the other channels that they don’t think for a minute about what they are saying. Imagine hiding out from some langer trying to kill you only for some idiot reporter to come on air and say “oh by the way there’s 4 hostages hiding out in the cold room”!
If you can get your hands on “the human face of big data”, there’s an interesting piece on how terrorists use data and how in more prolific hostage taking countries it’s now quite common for live selected killings to take place using human search engines and media outlets for info. Or even waiting to carry out an attack to see who is in their area. Next gen terrorism. Off point but interesting.
Its not just a modern thing – during a ground stand-off following an aircraft hijacking (in the 1970′s I think) special forces had approached the plane via a blind spot to launch a surprise raid on the hijackers. Unfortunately events were being broadcast on live radio and the hijackers were listening in and knew exactly what was about to happen, with disastrous results.
Amen.
What Globalist Murdoch said about the Sydney Siege comes to mind.
Bloodthirsty vampire.
http://www.thejournal.ie/murdoch-tweet-sydney-1836603-Dec2014/
Good move. Hopefully the media will cop on a bit more. If some aren’t making it up they are getting it all wrong.
Fox News springs to mind!
About time the tv media were taken to task, imagine if that lunatic had been watching the live stream and did go down to the chiller they were hiding in…unthinkable acts would have ensued.
In this day and age you would think tv news channels would have more cop on…but I suppose being more and more sensationalist is worth more than a life in this day and age. How many more lives would have been saved that day if that sick man was not put under the spotlight?
Its sad really that there is an appetite for this sensationalism.
Apparently the gunman was watching but must have missed that report. The cop is to blame here as well as he shouldn’t have told the media anything in the first place. With today’s communications it would be easy for any gunman to have someone else watching TV, twitter etc and keeping them informed of what was going on. Best keep the media away from they area and in the dark until it’s all over.
I wonder if that journalist would have been so eager to broadcast that information if one of his own relatives was hiding in that freezer?…..I think not…….which just goes to show how little empathy some journalists have with other people in deadly situations.
I wonder what nationality and religion the editor / producer : journalist are?
It’s like that film Night Crawler. Ratings are worth more to these stations than human lives. Check it out. Jake Gyllenhaal is great in it.
I was thinking more about the reporter from Die Hard and Die Hard 2.
Yes. Just what I was thinking. Great movie.
Some of these”repoters” are sociopaths.
Look at the way they vilify Israel for its conduct in the war against Hamas terror,though experts in this field attest that Israel took the most extraordinary efforts to keep civilian casualties at a minimum while Hamas used its own people as shields in some cases. But vilifying Israel feeds the Jew-hatred and sells so ‘to hell with the facts go for what sells’.
See excerpt from Colonel Kemp’s report
–Three days ago I spoke to an Israeli pilot that told me that the same morning he had aborted an enemy target a total of 17 times because there were civilians in the target zone, and eventually he abandoned the operation. I asked him, was that not frustrating? His answer was simply no. And that to me, is one of the best things about the IAF – that the last very thing they want to do is bomb a target and have that on their conscience for the rest of their lives. And it was the same thing with infantry soldiers. I spoke to soldiers who have been fighting in Gaza, and several of them said to me: ‘We know what the rules of engagement are but even without them, it is always on our minds that we cannot kill civilians.’ See for them, this has nothing to do with orders, it’s just always there at the forefront. We’re talking about [reservists who are] simply artists, metal-workers, musicians, they are not killers. They have absolutely no desire to kill civilians. In fact, in terms of civilian casualties, the attitude of IDF solders is the exact mirror image of the way they’re portrayed to the world.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/30/col-richard-kemp-israeli-pilot-aborted-gaza-strike-17-times-to-protect-civilians-jewish-people-should-be-proud-of-the-state-of-israel-interview/
Happy Easter All!
Truly and accurately stated. You’ll get red thumbs galore, no doubt, Patrick, but that just goes to show that many people don’t like the truth messing up their paradigm.
@Elias Khoury! Thanks for Elias’ sentiment. Your prediction was so but not so bad and some of them even red-thumbed Elias to spite me.Laughable isn’t it!
I worry not but to speak the truth as I see it. People have a very healthy scepticism about the newsmedia here and it’s just a matter of time before they cotton-on to the con-job the Hamas/PLO and other Jihadders have pulled on them via the self-seeking media.
Additionally, Jew-hatred is on the wane however imperceptible it seems.
Happy Easter…
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