Race
to find the final 50 people who flew to Britain with nurse suffering from Ebola
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Pauline Cafferkey
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UK authorities are hunting for 203 people on flights with
British National Health Service (NHS) nurse, Pauline Cafferkey to UK, who later fell ill in Glasgow after return
from Sierra Leone hours later. 47 passengers are still yet to be spoken to and 32 may be
abroad and those sat near her told to check for symptoms until at least
mid-January
Daily Mail/Scotsman reports almost 50 passengers who
were on flights with British Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey are yet to be spoken
to and health officials say those who sat near her must check for symptoms
until mid-January. The authorities are tracing 203 people who may have
come into contact with her as she flew to Glasgow from Sierra Leone via
Heathrow on Sunday.
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Journey: Ms Cafferkey left Sierra Leone on Sunday on
her long journey back to Glasgow via Casablanca and Heathrow
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Health bosses have also admitted that 32 of these
passengers may have left Britain on
other international flights, but efforts
are still being made to find them.
Anyone who sat next to or near Miss Cafferkey has been
told to take their temperatures twice a day until mid-January and have been
told to stay off public transport and away from large crowds.
They have also been handed Ebola self-testing kits
which has a section to monitor their health and the and another to help them
avoid spreading the disease if they fall ill.
Yesterday the doctor treating her at the Royal Free
Hospital in London said she is sitting up in her cocooned bed, eating, drinking
and talking to her family - but faces a 'critical few days'.
Dr Michael Jacobs said Ms Cafferkey was being treated
with convalescent plasma taken from the blood of a recovered patient and an
experimental anti-viral drug which is 'not proven to work'.
But he revealed the hospital was unable to obtain
ZMapp, the drug used to treat fellow British volunteer nurse William Pooley,
who recovered, because 'there is none in the world at the moment'.
Dr
Jacobs said: 'She's as well as we can hope for at this stage of the illness.
The next few days are critical, things could get worse, but in a week's time we
will know a lot more about where we stand.
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'Shambolic': Dr Martin Deahl, pictured, sat next to
the nurse on their flight home to London and said the testing at Heathrow
failed and Public Health England has put the public at risk
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