Two recent returnees in the UK to West Africa have seen their Ebola test back negative Wednesday while the entry procedures in the country were discussion after the return of contaminated nurse. Occupational health, fell ill on Monday in the Scottish Highlands and transferred to the hospital Tuesday Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (north-east Scotland) "has been tested negative for Ebola," said the Scottish government said in a statement in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. A second suspected case, which was isolated at the Royal Cornwall Hospital (south-west England) from Tuesday morning, also saw its analyzes back negative for Ebola virus, said a spokesman for the British health services public. Both suspects have no connection with the nurse contaminated with the disease currently treated with Royal Free Hospital, London, after being diagnosed positive on Monday in Glasgow. Pauline Cafferkey worked for Save the Children in the British Medical Center Kerry Town, Sierra Leone, before returning to the UK. It could receive blood plasma survivors Ebola, including the British voluntary nursing William Pooley, who had also been contaminated in Sierra Leone, said Sally Davies, Senior Advisor to the British government for public health issues. The fact that she could embark at London's Heathrow Airport for a flight to Glasgow, after having his temperature taken several times, was Wednesday interrogations center. "She was allowed to travel because she had no symptoms of Ebola, including no fever," said Sally Davies. "This obviously raises the question of whether we should be more careful," she added. "That's why we study constantly what we do whether we should be more careful if it is in the public interest and in the interest of the patient," she continued. The temperature of the nurse was tested six times in half an hour at Heathrow and each time was normal, leading the authorities to let her embark on its domestic flight to Glasgow. After returning home in a taxi, she had a fever and alerted the authorities. Martin Deahl, a British doctor who returned from Sierra Leone with Pauline Cafferkey criticized the tests performed at Heathrow airport, calling them "messy". "They had more testing kits and they do not seem to know what they were doing," he told the Daily Telegraph. This return of the Ebola virus in Europe involved while at least three new epidemic outbreaks have appeared Monday in the department of Kono in eastern Sierra Leone. The Ebola virus has caused in one year almost 7,900 deaths in several countries on a total of just over 20,000 registered cases, 99% in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, according to a United Nations report World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday.
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