Table 3.
Ebola screening evaluation traveller participant characteristics
| Participant characteristic | N |
| Gender | |
| Male | 14 |
| Female | 9 |
| Occupation/employer | |
| Healthcare provider (non-military) | 3 |
| Military medical | 4 |
| Military non-medical | 3 |
| Journalists (eg, correspondent, producer and camera person) | 4 |
| Retired | 1 |
| Other non-medical (eg, engineer and heavy plant fitter) | 2 |
| Non-medical response to Ebola outbreak (eg, epidemiologist, humanitarian worker and nutritionist) | 6 |
| Returned to UK prescreening (before 14 October) as well as postscreening | 11 |
| Number of times screened on entry to UK | |
| 0 (returned prescreening only) | 1 |
| 1 | 13 |
| 2 or more | 9 |
| Port of entry (note: some travellers had used more than one port of entry) | |
| Port 1 | 19 (including 5 military travellers) |
| Port 2 | 3 (including 1 military travellers) |
| Port 3 | 4 |
| Port 4 | 2 (both military travellers) |
| Port 5 (not originally a sampled port but travellers had been screened here) | 2 |
| Category of risk | |
| No category given as only returned prescreening | 1 |
| 1 | 15 |
| 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 |
| Could not remember | 4 |
| Signs and symptoms present at either port of entry or during 21-day incubation period | |
| Yes | 10 |
| No | 13 |
| Referred to secondary care | |
| No | 16 |
| Yes – directly from port | 2 |
| Yes – during 21-day incubation period | 5 |
| Total | 23 |