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LONDON — Britain's chief medical officer acknowledged Wednesday that Ebola screening procedures should be improved, after a nurse was cleared to fly hours before she was diagnosed with the disease.



Nurse Pauline Cafferkey flew from London to Glasgow on Sunday after returning from Sierra Leone. Her temperature was taken seven times at Heathrow Airport — once on arrival and six times after she told staff she thought she might have a fever.


Her temperature was found to be within the range defined as acceptable, and she was allowed to fly to Scotland. Read more...


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