to not want dh to travel due to ebola worries

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Dh is due to travel next month from Heathrow airport for work (not to Africa but don't want to say where for outing reasons)
he will swap over flights on the way abd I'm worried about the possible risk of someone travelling indirectly from Africa on his flight.
AIBU to want to put us all in a bubble?

Really..! hes not flying to Africa and i presume he's not stopping over in Africa, then the chances of him catching Ebola are massivly less than those of the flight crashing but you dont mention that fear

Ha ha ha ha, are you serious?

Really?

Yes, YABU.

He's not going to Africa. If he was, you'd be justified in worrying. But he's not.

I think you are getting a little worked up unnecessarily Op.

YADBU.

It's not airborne, you have to have direct contact with an infected person through broken skin, mucous membranes, bodily secretions etc. The majority of people are catching it because they have been caring for an infected person. He will be fine.

So he could be sat on a flight that connects with passenger leaving one if the affected countries?

Yes

www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/ebola-faq-en.pdf?ua=1

YANBU to want to hibernate with your family, but you aren't being entirely rational either, and I'm sure you know that.

Tbh I've got a couple of trips coming up in the UK, one in and one passing through London. With all the stuff on the news about Isis/terrorism/Ebola I'm starting to feel a bit wobbly - wouldn't give it a second thought if I was going alone but am taking my DD (10) with me.

I will go...I grew up with a very neurotic mum & I refuse to give in to my fears, but it doesn't stop me having them.

Hope your DH has a safe trip & is back home soon.

Tell him not to lick anyone with bleeding eyes and he will be fine.

My dh travels all over and where we live in the EU is a hub for people travelling in from W Africa, so I understand your fears, but YABU I think.

I suppose there might be a case for 'only travelling when absolutely necessary' for a month or so, to step back and see how the situation is progressing, but really I just think you have to carry on as normal because there are many places one could potentially become infected other than on transport ie I understand that university cleaners in some parts of the country have been briefed about Ebola symptoms owing to the thousands of students from W Africa travelling to UK universities to start or continue their studies during October.

Any of those students from the counties concerned could look absolutely fine going through airline checks and then develop systems up to 21 days later (or roughly that I think).

And airlines are on such an alert now that I think, ironically, it could be one of the safest times to travel!

Also, apparently the scientist who discovered the Ebola virus said he would be quite happy to sit next to someone on a train who was infected with it. (I think this is because people only become infectious when they are displaying quite visible symptoms in the more serious phase of the illness: diarrhoea, vomiting, bleeding from varous orifices.)

I wouldn't choose to fly to Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea atm (the outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal have been more or less contained), but anywhere else I think you just have to carry on as normal and take your chances.

Op....Dp flies for a living and has two flights rostered to The Gambia in November.... Goodness knows who is bloody holidaying there at the moment....but personally I wish they would go somewhere else instead. I don't want him to go there no.

However he flies daily and I'm sure your DH will be fine.

I'm sure he won't be licking anyone but it does live on hard surfaces for a few hours including toilets, handles etc.. and apparently toilets can be heavily contaminated with the virvirus as it's in urine and feces

Ebola is not airborne though - you could sit next to someone with Ebola for hours and you wouldn't catch it unless you somehow exchange bodily fluids. The only increased risk is from being close to a dead body when that person had died of Ebola and even then the risk is containable plus that's not gonna happen. So unless your husband decides to lick a feverous person on his flight then he'll be fine!

Please saying Africa as whole of the continent is affected. Africa has over 50 countries!

And yes, YABVU

I would have said that you are being unreasonable but I've heard a few people mention reluctance to fly to anwhere atm, especially non developed countries. So, you may not be being completely unreasonable, I don't know. I wouldn't be worried I don't think. But I can see why people are.

Thanks for takibg time to reply. I do feel a little less panicky now, I know IAB abit U if I'm honest. But it doesn't stop the worry. I think I might ban the news in my house for now.

Think of it this way -- ebola spreads in a way similar to HIV, and you probably take the train with HIV-positive people all the time without knowing it.

People with ebola have flown on planes without infecting anyone else

This reminds me of school gate talk immediately after 9/11. There were quite a few mothers fretting about whether they should still go ahead with their planned skiing holidays after Christmas or their 2002 summer holidays abroad as that would involve flying.
I was out of the country at the time of 9/11 and flew home the next day. Typically I was abroad about twice a month for work at that time. I had no option but to fly if I to keep working.

For those people concerned about passing through London - the millions of us who live and work there every day are also moving about the rest of the UK. You can't avoid risk by just staying close to home.

Sorry for not being specific whichusername, I didn't think it was essential to tge post to say which parts of Africa he was not going to

That should read 'As if while of the continent'

statistically he is far more likely to get hurt on the road journey to the airport.

this level of anxiety gets you nowhere.