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| Passenger screening for Ebola is to be extended to Manchester and Birmingham airports, Public Health England says. | Passenger screening for Ebola is to be extended to Manchester and Birmingham airports, Public Health England says. |
| Staff at the two airports will begin checking arrivals from Ebola-affected countries after it is introduced at Gatwick and St Pancras next week. | |
| Screening for the virus which has killed about 4,500 people in West Africa started at Heathrow this week. | Screening for the virus which has killed about 4,500 people in West Africa started at Heathrow this week. |
| On Friday, David Cameron urged other countries to follow Britain's lead in tackling the crisis. | On Friday, David Cameron urged other countries to follow Britain's lead in tackling the crisis. |
| He described Ebola as "the biggest health problem facing our world in a generation" and called on other countries to "look at their responsibilities". | He described Ebola as "the biggest health problem facing our world in a generation" and called on other countries to "look at their responsibilities". |
| Meanwhile, a Royal Navy ship carrying medical teams and aid experts is shortly set to leave for Sierra Leone. | Meanwhile, a Royal Navy ship carrying medical teams and aid experts is shortly set to leave for Sierra Leone. |
| RFA Argus, which has a fully-equipped hospital, is expected to reach the region by the end of October and will also be carrying 225 military personnel. | |
| 'Keep country safe' | |
| Chief executive of Public Health England Duncan Selbie described the challenge of introducing screening at Heathrow as "phenomenal". | |
| In a weekly message to staff, he said that once the existing measures covering Heathrow, Gatwick and the Eurostar terminal at St Pancras had "settled", they would be rolled out to other ports of entry. | |
| Mr Selbie praised volunteers from the Cabinet Office and Whitehall who had gone to the west London airport "at a moment's notice". | |
| "I appreciate very much that we are taking people away from their normal work, and please be assured that we are thinking hard and listening carefully to those on the ground to see how we can make this more sustainable," he said. | |
| "What I am certain of is that we have the people who know how to keep the country safe and that is exactly what we will do." |