UK: Ebola virus screening at Heathrow airport blasted ‘a complete joke’ | Daily Mail Online

Share it with your friends Like

Thanks! Share it with your friends!

Close

“The screening methods being used in the US and UK appear to be little more than a farce. We are in trouble folks.”  Admin

Britain’s Ebola screening plans descended into chaos on its first day today after people flying to the UK from high risk countries revealed the checks are not compulsory.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said airline passengers from West Africa must be checked for symptoms ‘to make our country safe’ and warned the epidemic could be as deadly as Aids.

He also warned Britain should expect up to ten cases by Christmas as screening of passengers from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, where 4,000 have died from Ebola, started at Heathrow.

But travellers at Terminal One this morning said the system is a ‘complete joke’ because they were either not checked at all, told it was optional or had to seek out medical staff themselves.

Scroll down for video

Read More  Ebola virus screening at Heathrow airport blasted ‘a complete joke’ | Daily Mail Online.