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| Ebola Patient Is Moved to London, and 2 Others Are Tested in Britain | Ebola Patient Is Moved to London, and 2 Others Are Tested in Britain |
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| LONDON — A health worker who returned from West Africa and was found to have Ebola when she arrived home in Scotland was transferred on Tuesday to Britain’s designated treatment center for the disease in London. | LONDON — A health worker who returned from West Africa and was found to have Ebola when she arrived home in Scotland was transferred on Tuesday to Britain’s designated treatment center for the disease in London. |
| The authorities also reported that two more people were being tested for the virus. | The authorities also reported that two more people were being tested for the virus. |
| The sudden flurry of episodes involving travelers from countries at the center of the Ebola epidemic raised questions about screening procedures at British airports, where passengers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are supposed to be scrutinized for symptoms of Ebola, such as high temperatures. | The sudden flurry of episodes involving travelers from countries at the center of the Ebola epidemic raised questions about screening procedures at British airports, where passengers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are supposed to be scrutinized for symptoms of Ebola, such as high temperatures. |
| The patient in the confirmed case in Scotland was identified in British news reports as Pauline Cafferkey. She had returned to Glasgow on Sunday after working since November with the charity Save the Children in Sierra Leone. | The patient in the confirmed case in Scotland was identified in British news reports as Pauline Cafferkey. She had returned to Glasgow on Sunday after working since November with the charity Save the Children in Sierra Leone. |
| The British authorities are trying to contact people who were on the same flights as Ms. Cafferkey via Casablanca, Morocco, and Heathrow Airport near London. | The British authorities are trying to contact people who were on the same flights as Ms. Cafferkey via Casablanca, Morocco, and Heathrow Airport near London. |
| Ms. Cafferkey was flown back to London on Tuesday aboard a plane equipped with a quarantine tent. The health authorities said she would be treated at the Royal Free Hospital in North London, where William Pooley, Britain’s first known Ebola patient, was treated and recovered after contracting the disease in Sierra Leone. | Ms. Cafferkey was flown back to London on Tuesday aboard a plane equipped with a quarantine tent. The health authorities said she would be treated at the Royal Free Hospital in North London, where William Pooley, Britain’s first known Ebola patient, was treated and recovered after contracting the disease in Sierra Leone. |
| Ms. Cafferkey is the first person known to have learned she had Ebola while in Britain. The health authorities described her condition on Tuesday as stable. She had been isolated in an infectious diseases unit at Gartnavel General Hospital in Glasgow after she reported feeling unwell on Monday. | Ms. Cafferkey is the first person known to have learned she had Ebola while in Britain. The health authorities described her condition on Tuesday as stable. She had been isolated in an infectious diseases unit at Gartnavel General Hospital in Glasgow after she reported feeling unwell on Monday. |
| Ms. Cafferkey had been a member of a team of 30 health professionals who traveled as volunteers to Sierra Leone last month. “For me, it was kind of a natural thing,” she said in a BBC Radio interview before she left. “I couldn’t think of any reason why not to go.” | |
| Dr. Martin Deahl, a member of the group that returned with her over the weekend, told Sky News that he had been sitting next to Ms. Cafferkey for part of the journey home. He found the arrangements to examine the health workers at Heathrow Airport to be “disorganized.” | Dr. Martin Deahl, a member of the group that returned with her over the weekend, told Sky News that he had been sitting next to Ms. Cafferkey for part of the journey home. He found the arrangements to examine the health workers at Heathrow Airport to be “disorganized.” |
| Dr. Deahl said precautionary measures should have been taken before Ms. Cafferkey continued to Glasgow from London. | Dr. Deahl said precautionary measures should have been taken before Ms. Cafferkey continued to Glasgow from London. |
| “If there had been alternative arrangements for poor Pauline, an awful lot of people on that flight to Glasgow wouldn’t be going through the anxiety and the stress that I am sure they are going through at the moment,” he said. “Although I should say that the risk to them is incredibly small, nevertheless they were exposed to a risk that some of us felt shouldn’t have happened.” | |
| Britain’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said the government was doing “absolutely everything” to protect public safety. But he said there would be a re-examination of the “procedures and protocols” for volunteers and British government personnel working in Sierra Leone. | |
| Separately on Tuesday, the authorities said that two more people who were recently in West Africa were being tested for Ebola hundreds of miles apart, in Scotland and in southwest England. | Separately on Tuesday, the authorities said that two more people who were recently in West Africa were being tested for Ebola hundreds of miles apart, in Scotland and in southwest England. |
| Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, said the second patient in Scotland was a health worker who had recently returned from Africa and who had been staying at a youth hostel in the Scottish Highlands. She told the BBC that there was a “low probability” that the health worker had the disease, which has killed thousands in West Africa. | Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, said the second patient in Scotland was a health worker who had recently returned from Africa and who had been staying at a youth hostel in the Scottish Highlands. She told the BBC that there was a “low probability” that the health worker had the disease, which has killed thousands in West Africa. |
| “Although this is another returning health care worker from West Africa, the patient here has had no, as far as we’re aware, direct contact with people infected with Ebola,” Ms. Sturgeon said. | “Although this is another returning health care worker from West Africa, the patient here has had no, as far as we’re aware, direct contact with people infected with Ebola,” Ms. Sturgeon said. |
| “But we are operating, given the seriousness of Ebola, on a highly precautionary basis, and that’s why this patient over the course of today will be transferred for tests,” she said. | “But we are operating, given the seriousness of Ebola, on a highly precautionary basis, and that’s why this patient over the course of today will be transferred for tests,” she said. |
| In southwest England, a patient was isolated at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro “and is currently undergoing a series of tests, one of which is for Ebola,” the health authorities said in a statement. | In southwest England, a patient was isolated at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro “and is currently undergoing a series of tests, one of which is for Ebola,” the health authorities said in a statement. |
| “We do not expect the results to be known for at least 24 hours,” the statement said. | “We do not expect the results to be known for at least 24 hours,” the statement said. |