Two cases of possible Ebola tested at Leeds hospital
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has confirmed it has dealt with two cases – one between Christmas and New Year and another today – and followed protocol to find that both patients tested negative.
The health scares came as MPs were updated on the UK’s ability to cope with Ebola by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt today, as a British nurse remained critically ill in a north London hospital with the virus.
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Hide AdSave the Children has promised a review into how nurse Pauline Cafferkey, 39, contracted the disease at the Sierra Leone treatment centre she was volunteering at, while the Government’s Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, has acknowledged that questions had been raised about the airport screening procedure for Ebola, which Mrs Cafferkey passed.