A nurse who faces being struck off over a botched Ebola screening at Heathrow airport has said it is “preposterous” that she would have concealed knowledge that Pauline Cafferkey was unwell. “I just spent six weeks protecting myself from contracting Ebola, ensuring my colleagues working around me were protecting themselves against Ebola. The reason I had gone out to Sierra Leone was to control the spread of Ebola. Temperatures of passengers arriving at the airport were not taken as they disembarked from the plane from Sierra Leone, she said. They had come from Sierra Leone but thoughts were entering my head: could this person be unwell?

Source: The Guardian November 17, 2016 16:38 UTC