Ebola nurse taxi driver blasts screening procedures that let her leave Heathrow Health officials contacted the driver – a grandfather in his late 40s – shortly after it was confirmed the nurse had the virus
The son of a taxi driver who picked up Pauline Cafferkey slammed screening procedures that let her leave Heathrow.
The cabbie drove Pauline from Glasgow Airport after she returned on Sunday from working with Ebola-infected patients in Sierra Leone.
Health officials contacted the driver – a grandfather in his late 40s – shortly after it was confirmed the nurse had the virus.
He has not yet been tested as he has not shown any symptoms, but was given advice by health workers.
We have chosen not to name the man, who operates a private hire car in Glasgow, as it may damage his business.
But his 21-year-old son hit out at health authorities on social media for failing to stop the Pauline travelling.
He raged: “Just found out that my dad picked up the woman that might have Ebola from Glasgow Airport and now has to go get tested.
“Why the f*** are we letting nurses who have been in contact with Ebola patients back into Scotland without getting quarantined? F****** mutants.”
But the cabbie said it was “just one of these things”.
Speaking from his home in East Renfrewshire, the dad of two told our reporter: “At the early stages, the only way you can transfer it is through bodily fluids. The woman wasn’t showing any symptoms.
“She was standing there, just like you are standing there now.
“It is not an airborne virus. I am not worried in the slightest.”
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