Ban for nurse who risked ebola outbreak

Burslem

A nurse has been banned from the profession after she risked an Ebola outbreak by hiding fellow volunteer Pauline Cafferkey’s high temperature on the flight home from Africa. Donna Wood backed up Ms Cafferkey’s claim that she felt warm on the journey because she had been ‘sleeping in a hoodie on the plane.’ Wood risked exposing others to the deadly disease by hiding Ms Cafferkey’s elevated temperature on their return to the UK, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. She…

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