Review ordered as Ebola nurse passes seven checks for virus

Screening protocols for Ebola in the UK will be reviewed after a nurse being treated for Ebola in London was allowed to leave Heathrow even though she was tested repeatedly.

Review ordered as Ebola nurse passes seven checks for virus
Wed, 31 Dec, 2014 - 07:06

Screening protocols for Ebola in the UK will be reviewed after a nurse being treated for Ebola in London was allowed to leave Heathrow even though she was tested repeatedly.

Pauline Cafferkey, a public health nurse at Blantyre Health Centre in South Lanarkshire, is receiving specialist treatment via a quarantine tent at the Royal Free Hospital in north London after initially flying home from Heathrow to Glasgow upon her return from Sierra Leone.

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