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Criticism was leveled at current screening protocols at UK points of entry, which mainly consisted of taking the person's temperature and asking a series of questions, following her diagnosis as being inadequate due to the fact that Pauline Cafferkey was able to get through border controls and travel on a domestic flight from Heathrow to Glasgow as her symptoms had no yet developed, making a diagnosis hard to detect, and also due to a lack of staff and equipment required to effectively test those returning following.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30637049|title=BBC News - Doctor travelling with Ebola nurse: Screening 'chaotic'|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/30/ebola-airport-screening-reviewed|title=Ebola screening to be reviewed after doctor attacks ‘inadequate’ measures|author=Josh Halliday|work=the Guardian}}</ref>
Criticism was leveled at current screening protocols at UK points of entry, which mainly consisted of taking the person's temperature and asking a series of questions, following her diagnosis as being inadequate due to the fact that Pauline Cafferkey was able to get through border controls and travel on a domestic flight from Heathrow to Glasgow as her symptoms had no yet developed, making a diagnosis hard to detect, and also due to a lack of staff and equipment required to effectively test those returning following.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30637049|title=BBC News - Doctor travelling with Ebola nurse: Screening 'chaotic'|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/30/ebola-airport-screening-reviewed|title=Ebola screening to be reviewed after doctor attacks ‘inadequate’ measures|author=Josh Halliday|work=the Guardian}}</ref>

On 30 December 2014, Cafferkey who is battling Ebola at Royal Free Hospital in London, could be offered plasma from patients who have survived the virus. British nurse [[William Pooley]] has donated plasma, Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies confirmed. Other available treatments include antiviral drugs, but there are no stocks left of [[ZMapp]] - the drug used to treat William Pooley.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30637199|title=Ebola nurse may be offered recovered patients' plasma|publisher=BBC News|date=20 December 2014}}</ref>


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==References==

Revision as of 19:38, 30 December 2014

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This article describes cases of Ebola virus disease in the United Kingdom, including medically evacuated cases and imported cases in 2014.[1]

1976 Needle-stick case

On 5 November 1976, Geoffrey Platt, a laboratory technician at the former Microbiological Research Establishment in Porton Down, Wiltshire, contracted Ebola in an accidental needlestick injury from a contaminated needle while handling samples from Africa.[2] He was treated with human interferon and convalescent serum. The course of his disease was mild and he fully recovered.[3][4]

Evacuated nurse

An isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital, London, received its first case on 24 August. William Pooley, a British nurse who contracted the disease while working in Sierra Leone, was medically evacuated by the Royal Air Force on a specially-equipped C-17 aircraft. He was released from hospital on 3 September.[5][6] Pooley delivered the Channel 4 Alternative Christmas message in 2014.[7]

Returning aid worker

Royal Free Hospital

On 29 December 2014, an aid worker who had just returned from Sierra Leone via Casablanca Airport and London Heathrow was diagnosed with Ebola at Glasgow's Gartnavel General Hospital.[1][8] The patient was later identified as Pauline Cafferkey,[9] who had been working at an Ebola treatment centre in Kerry Town in Sierra Leone.[10]

After initial treatment in Glasgow, she was transferred by air to RAF Northolt, to the specialist high-level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London for longer-term treatment.[8][11] A Scottish government spokesman described the risk to the general public as "extremely low to the point of negligible" due to the very early stage of the infection at the time of detection.[8] Contact tracing is being done on 70 other passengers who travelled on the flight from London to Glasgow with the infected individual.[11]

Criticism was leveled at current screening protocols at UK points of entry, which mainly consisted of taking the person's temperature and asking a series of questions, following her diagnosis as being inadequate due to the fact that Pauline Cafferkey was able to get through border controls and travel on a domestic flight from Heathrow to Glasgow as her symptoms had no yet developed, making a diagnosis hard to detect, and also due to a lack of staff and equipment required to effectively test those returning following.[12][13]

On 30 December 2014, Cafferkey who is battling Ebola at Royal Free Hospital in London, could be offered plasma from patients who have survived the virus. British nurse William Pooley has donated plasma, Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies confirmed. Other available treatments include antiviral drugs, but there are no stocks left of ZMapp - the drug used to treat William Pooley.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b "Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow hospital". BBC News. 29 December 2014.
  2. ^ Sam Rkaina (25 August 2014). "Ebola: Last British man to survive deadly virus says public must be warned of danger". Daily Mirror.
  3. ^ Emond RT, Evans B, Bowen ET; et al. (1977). "A case of Ebola virus infection". British Medical Journal. 2 (6086): 541–544. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.6086.541. PMC 1631428. PMID 890413. {{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Outbreaks Chronology: Ebola Virus Disease". CDC.
  5. ^ "British Ebola patient arrives in UK for hospital treatment". BBC News. 24 August 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  6. ^ "Ebola: British nurse makes full recovery and leaves hospital". The Week. 3 September 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  7. ^ UEA. "UEA". Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  8. ^ a b c Severin Carrell, Libby Brooks and Lisa O'Carroll (29 December 2014). "Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow". The Guardian.
  9. ^ "Hero nurse Pauline Cafferkey could have contracted deadly Ebola at Christmas Day service". The Telegraph. 30 December 2014.
  10. ^ Severin Carrell, Libby Brooks and Lisa O'Carroll (29 December 2014). "Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow". The Guardian.
  11. ^ a b "Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey transferred to London unit". BBC News. 30 December 2014.
  12. ^ "BBC News - Doctor travelling with Ebola nurse: Screening 'chaotic'". BBC News.
  13. ^ Josh Halliday. "Ebola screening to be reviewed after doctor attacks 'inadequate' measures". the Guardian.
  14. ^ "Ebola nurse may be offered recovered patients' plasma". BBC News. 20 December 2014.

See also

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