Emergency screening measures for Ebola are being carried out on an "haphazard and voluntary basis"

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Immigration officers at Heathrow have been shaking hands with passengers on the first day of the emergency screening measures for Ebola.

Travellers on connecting flights from West Africa - where the disease has killed over 4,000 people in Liberia and Sierra Leone - said they were being given the option of being screened for symptoms of the virus rather than being obliged to undergo checks.

Mr Samura said that when passengers on his flight eventually got to the immigration desks they were given the option of
filling in a questionnaire and being screened, or simply going through.

He said: "Most of the people who had been on our flight from Liberia to Brussels didn't go into the screening room,
they just seemed to go through to customs and presumably out of the airport.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11161648/Ebola-screening-Immigration-officers-shaking-hands-with-passengers-at-Heathrow.html


Yeah....we're screwn.