Ebola screening to be reviewed after doctor attacks ‘inadequate’ measures

Public Health England says it will review procedures after medic who travelled with UK Ebola patient says system ‘illogical’

Scottish Ebola patient is named – as it happened

Public Health England has vowed to review its Ebola screening measures after they were branded “utterly illogical” by an NHS doctor who returned from Africa with the Scottish nurse who has contracted the virus.

Dr Martin Deahl, who sat next to Ebola patient Pauline Cafferkey on a flight to the UK from Sierra Leone, told the Guardian that public health was being put at risk by “totally inadequate” screening facilities at Heathrow airport.

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