Cleary Vivien, Wynne-Evans Edward, Freed James, Fleet Katie, Thorn Simone, Turbitt Deborah
J Bus Contin Emer Plan. 2017 Dec 1;10(2):177-187.
An outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) began in Guinea in December 2013 and was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization in August 2014. In October, the UK government tasked Public Health England (PHE) to set up EVD screening at key ports. The key aim of port-of-entry screening was to identify passengers coming from areas with high risk of EVD, and give them advice to raise their awareness of symptoms and what actions to take. Direct flights from Sierra Leone, Guinea or Liberia had all been cancelled, so intelligence on passenger numbers and routes was used to identify the most commonly used routes from the affected countries into the UK. One of these was St Pancras International train station. Screening had never previously been implemented at a UK train station so had to be set up from scratch. Key to the success of this was excellent multi-agency working between PHE, the UK Border Force, Eurostar, Network Rail and the Cabinet Office. This paper gives an overview of the activation of EVD screening at St Pancras International and the subsequent decommissioning.
2013年12月，埃博拉病毒病（EVD）疫情在几内亚爆发，并于2014年8月被世界卫生组织宣布为国际关注的突发公共卫生事件。10月，英国政府责成英国公共卫生署（PHE）在主要港口设立埃博拉病毒病筛查。入境筛查的主要目的是识别来自埃博拉病毒病高风险地区的乘客，并向他们提供建议，以提高他们对症状的认识以及应采取的行动。从塞拉利昂、几内亚或利比里亚的直飞航班均已取消，因此利用有关乘客数量和路线的情报来确定从受影响国家进入英国最常用的路线。其中之一是圣潘克拉斯国际火车站。此前英国火车站从未进行过筛查，因此必须从头开始设立。成功的关键在于英国公共卫生署、英国边境部队、欧洲之星、铁路网公司和内阁办公室之间出色的多机构合作。本文概述了圣潘克拉斯国际火车站埃博拉病毒病筛查的启动及随后的停用情况。
