Dr Ian Norton

Yes.

No, we I mean, higher case fatality, 50 or 60 percent in Ebola cases.

This one's 30% to 40%.

You know, Ebola also is relatively difficult to catch.

It is person-to-person contact, doesn't get aerosolized.

Not really sure for the NDs yet whether there is any element of that.

But certainly as long as we give these crew members, I mean, remember they're not medically trained.

They've done a first aid course perhaps with some of their marine tickets, some of that many, many years ago.

And there'll be one poor doctor really having the worst weeks of their, his or her life at the moment out on that ship.

So I do feel for them.

It is.

That's going to be the tough part.

I mean, I'm thinking of the two Irish citizens coming home hopefully soon.

They will, you know, right out to eight weeks.

So that's an incredibly long period, certainly in Ebola.

After 21 days, COVID, we used to use about 14, and then it gradually shrunk from there.

But eight weeks, that's incredibly long.

Very tough.

And also...

you know, testing won't really work during that period.