Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Doctor exposed to UK Ebola patient: ‘Lack of clarity serves to fuel anxiety’

Medic who flew back from Sierra Leone with Pauline Cafferkey describes lax airport procedures and bizarre quarantine advice

If I thought that the last five weeks in Sierra Leone was about as surreal as life could get, nothing could have prepared me for the journey home and its aftermath.

Sadly, one of my colleagues, nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who was travelling back with me on the flight from Freetown, has now been admitted to hospital as a confirmed Ebola case. She seemed fine on the journey home and her temperature would certainly have been normal on leaving Heathrow as no one was allowed to leave the airport until their temperature had been checked twice.

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