a passenger flying from newcastle airport to gatwick was pulled aside at security after staff thought his pease pudding was semtex , a plastic explosive . it can be exhausting nursing a child through a nasty bout with the flu , so imagine how 22-year-old fatu kekula felt nursing her entire family through ebola . her father . her mother . her sister . her cousin . fatu took care of them all , single-handedly feeding them , cleaning them and giving them medications . and she did so with remarkable success . three out of her four patients survived . that 's a 25 % death rate -- considerably better than the estimated ebola death rate of 70 % . fatu stayed healthy , which is noteworthy considering that more than 300 health care workers have become infected with ebola , and she did n't even have personal protection equipment -- those white space suits and goggles used in ebola treatment units . instead fatu , who 's in her final year of nursing school , invented her own equipment . international aid workers heard about fatu 's `` trash bag method '' and are now teaching it to other west africans who ca n't get into hospitals and do n't have protective gear of their own . every day , several times a day for about two weeks , fatu put trash bags over her socks and tied them in a knot over her calves . then she put on a pair of rubber boots and then another set of trash bags over the boots . the part-time actor was going through customs to board his easyjet flight , when airport staff discovered he had six # 1.80 tubs of the traditional pudding and north east delicacy in his hand luggage . the boiled-legume dish was removed from his bags , along with several greggs pies . pease pudding is a traditional dish made with split peas and a favourite in the north east of england . the 58-year-old , who previously appeared in the bbc tv series blackadder , was surprised at the mix-up . ' i love my pease pudding , ' he told the mirror . ' i think the resemblance to semtex was pushing it a bit far as it was in containers marked pease pudding . ' security staff told the traveller his pease pudding could ` technically ' be classed as semtex . however , the traveller did admit he was carrying six tubs of the pudding along with pies from the greggs bakery - which became synonymous with the ` pasty tax ' introduced and then scrapped by chancellor george osborne in 2012 . she wrapped her hair in a pair of stockings and over that a trash bag . next she donned a raincoat and four pairs of gloves on each hand , followed by a mask . it was an arduous and time-consuming process , but fatu was religious about it , never cutting corners . unicef spokeswoman sarah crowe said fatu is amazing . `` essentially this is a tale of how communities are doing things for themselves , '' crowe said . `` our approach is to listen and work with communities and help them do the best they can with what they have . '' two doctors for 85,000 people . she emphasized , of course , that it would be better for patients to be in real hospitals with doctors and nurses in protective gear -- it 's just that those things are n't available to many west africans . no one knows that better than fatu . her ebola nightmare started juy 27 , when her father , moses , had a spike in blood pressure . she took him to a hospital in their home city of kakata . a bed was free because a patient had just passed away . what no one realized at the time was that the patient had died of ebola . one woman walked in , and the ebola nightmare began . moses , 52 , developed a fever , vomiting and diarrhea . then the hospital closed down because nurses started dying of ebola . after being told that the consistency of the pudding could see it ` technically ' classed as semtex , he reportedly offered to let security taste the delicacy to prove it was n't . luckily for the pease-lover , who lives in sussex , he was allowed through with his snacks and was simply warned to pack them in hold luggage the next time he was travelling . the traveller has also placed several greggs pies in his hand luggage for the journey . an customs spokeswoman said : ` there is no customs policy with regard to pease pudding so far as i am aware . ' when mailonline contacted a newcastle airport spokeswoman , she said they do not comment on security matters . it is not the first time unusual items have been picked up by airport security scanners . stansted airport has previously confiscated items including furry handcuffs , while two italian women were stopped at munich airport , in germany for trying to transport a human skeleton belonging to a dead relative . last year , customs officers at birmingham airport seized a giant squash from a passenger who was trying to smuggle it into britain from asia . the 4ft-long vegetable , which weighed in more than at 4st , was found with 175lb -lrb- 79kg -rrb- of fish and 94,000 cigarettes from bangladesh . a spokesman for solihull council said : ` it is a bit of a rare find , as you can imagine we do get cigarettes a lot , but not a squash , especially not one of this size . ' america 's tsa -lrb- transport security administration -rrb- even has an instagram account where it documents the weird wonder , and sometimes downright dangerous , items confiscated at security . fatu took her father to monrovia , the capital city , about a 90-minute drive via difficult roads . three hospitals turned him away because they were full . she took him back to another hospital in kakata . they said he had typhoid fever and did little for him , so fatu took him home , where he infected three other family members : fatu 's mother , victoria , 57 ; fatu 's sister , vivian , 28 , and their 14-year-old cousin who was living with them , alfred winnie . guilty of ebola until proven otherwise . while operating her one-woman ebola hospital for two weeks , fatu consulted with their family doctor , who would talk to her on the phone , but would n't come to the house . she gave them medicines she obtained from the local clinic and fluids through intravenous lines that she started . at times , her patients ' blood pressure plummeted so low she feared they would die . `` i cried many times , '' she said . `` i said ` god , you want to tell me i 'm going to lose my entire family ? ' '' but her father , mother , and sister rallied and were well on their way to recovery when space became available at jfk medical center on august 17 . alfred never recovered , though , and passed away at the hospital the next day . `` i 'm very , very proud , '' her father said . `` she saved my life through the almighty god . '' now he 's working to find a scholarship for fatu so she can finish her final year of nursing school . he has no doubt his daughter will go on to save many more people during her life . `` i 'm sure she 'll be a great giant of liberia , '' he said . ebola patients left to lay on the ground .
the geordie passenger was pulled aside at customs by security . six tubs of pease pudding , and several greggs pies were removed . staff thought the north east delicacy was the plastic explosive , semtex . pease pudding is made from split peas , boiled with onion and carrot .
a passenger flying from newcastle airport to gatwick was pulled aside at security after staff thought his pease pudding was semtex , a plastic explosive . it can be exhausting nursing a child through a nasty bout with the flu , so imagine how 22-year-old fatu kekula felt nursing her entire family through ebola . her father . her mother . her sister . her cousin . fatu took care of them all , single-handedly feeding them , cleaning them and giving them medications . and she did so with remarkable success . three out of her four patients survived . that 's a 25 % death rate -- considerably better than the estimated ebola death rate of 70 % . fatu stayed healthy , which is noteworthy considering that more than 300 health care workers have become infected with ebola , and she did n't even have personal protection equipment -- those white space suits and goggles used in ebola treatment units . instead fatu , who 's in her final year of nursing school , invented her own equipment . international aid workers heard about fatu 's `` trash bag method '' and are now teaching it to other west africans who ca n't get into hospitals and do n't have protective gear of their own . every day , several times a day for about two weeks , fatu put trash bags over her socks and tied them in a knot over her calves . then she put on a pair of rubber boots and then another set of trash bags over the boots . the part-time actor was going through customs to board his easyjet flight , when airport staff discovered he had six # 1.80 tubs of the traditional pudding and north east delicacy in his hand luggage . the boiled-legume dish was removed from his bags , along with several greggs pies . pease pudding is a traditional dish made with split peas and a favourite in the north east of england . the 58-year-old , who previously appeared in the bbc tv series blackadder , was surprised at the mix-up . ' i love my pease pudding , ' he told the mirror . ' i think the resemblance to semtex was pushing it a bit far as it was in containers marked pease pudding . ' security staff told the traveller his pease pudding could ` technically ' be classed as semtex . however , the traveller did admit he was carrying six tubs of the pudding along with pies from the greggs bakery - which became synonymous with the ` pasty tax ' introduced and then scrapped by chancellor george osborne in 2012 . she wrapped her hair in a pair of stockings and over that a trash bag . next she donned a raincoat and four pairs of gloves on each hand , followed by a mask . it was an arduous and time-consuming process , but fatu was religious about it , never cutting corners . unicef spokeswoman sarah crowe said hold luggage the next time he was travelling . the traveller has also placed several greggs pies in his hand luggage for the journey . an customs spokeswoman said : ` there is no customs policy with regard to pease pudding so far as i am aware . ' when mailonline contacted a newcastle airport spokeswoman , she said they do not comment on security matters . it is not the first time unusual items have been picked up by airport security scanners . stansted airport has previously confiscated items including furry handcuffs , while two italian women were stopped at munich airport , in germany for trying to transport a human skeleton belonging to a dead relative . last year , customs officers at birmingham airport seized a giant squash from a passenger who was trying to smuggle it into britain from asia . the 4ft-long vegetable , which weighed in more than at 4st , was found with 175lb -lrb- 79kg -rrb- of fish and 94,000 cigarettes from bangladesh . a spokesman for solihull council said : ` it is a bit of a rare find , as you can imagine we do get cigarettes a lot , but not a squash , especially not one of this size . ' america 's tsa -lrb- transport security administration -rrb- even has an instagram account where it documents the weird wonder , and sometimes downright dangerous , items confiscated at security . fatu took her father to monrovia , the capital city , about a god . '' now he 's working to find a scholarship for fatu so she can finish her final year of nursing school . he has no doubt his daughter will go on to save many more people during her life . `` i 'm sure she 'll be a great giant of liberia , '' he said . ebola patients left to lay on the ground .
a passenger flying from newcastle airport to gatwick was pulled aside at security after staff thought his pease pudding was semtex , a plastic explosive . it can be exhausting nursing a child through a nasty bout with the flu , so imagine how 22-year-old fatu kekula felt nursing her entire family through ebola . her father . her mother . her sister . her cousin . fatu took care of them all , single-handedly feeding them , cleaning them and giving them medications . and she did so with remarkable success . three out of her four patients survived . that 's a 25 % death rate -- considerably better than the estimated ebola death rate of 70 % . fatu stayed healthy , which is noteworthy considering that more than 300 health care workers have become infected with ebola , and she did n't even have personal protection equipment -- those white space suits and goggles used in ebola treatment units . instead fatu , who 's in her final year of nursing school , invented her own equipment . international aid workers heard about fatu 's `` trash bag method '' and are now teaching it to other west africans who ca n't get into hospitals and do n't have protective gear of their own . every day , several times a day for about two weeks , fatu put trash bags over her socks and tied them in a knot over her calves . then she put on a pair of rubber boots and then another set of trash bags over the boots . the part-time actor was going through customs to board his easyjet flight , when airport staff discovered he had six # 1.80 tubs of the traditional pudding and north east delicacy in his hand luggage . the boiled-legume dish was removed from his bags , along with several greggs pies . pease pudding is a traditional dish made with split peas and a favourite in the north east of england . the 58-year-old , who previously appeared in the bbc tv series blackadder , was surprised at the mix-up . ' i love my pease pudding , ' he told the mirror . ' i think the resemblance to semtex was pushing it a bit far as it was in containers marked pease pudding . ' security staff told the traveller his pease pudding could ` technically ' be classed as semtex . however , the traveller did admit he was carrying six tubs of the pudding along with pies from the greggs bakery - which became synonymous with the ` pasty tax ' introduced and then scrapped by chancellor george osborne in 2012 . she wrapped her hair in a pair of stockings and over that a trash bag . next she donned a raincoat and four pairs of gloves on each hand , followed by a mask . it was an arduous and time-consuming process , but fatu was religious about it , never cutting corners . unicef spokeswoman sarah crowe said their home city of kakata . a bed was free because a patient had just passed away . what no one realized at the time was that the patient had died of ebola . one woman walked in , and the ebola nightmare began . moses , 52 , developed a fever , vomiting and diarrhea . then the hospital closed down because nurses started dying of ebola . after being told that the consistency of the pudding could see it ` technically ' classed as semtex , he reportedly offered to let security taste the delicacy to prove it was n't . luckily for the pease-lover , who lives in sussex , he was allowed through with his snacks and was simply warned to pack them in hold luggage the next time he was travelling . the traveller has also placed several greggs pies in his hand luggage for the journey . an customs spokeswoman said : ` there is no customs policy with regard to pease pudding so far as i am aware . ' when mailonline contacted a newcastle airport spokeswoman , she said they do not comment on security matters . it is not the first time unusual items have been picked up by airport security scanners . stansted airport has previously confiscated items including furry handcuffs , while two italian women were stopped at munich airport , in germany for trying to transport a human skeleton belonging to a dead relative . last year , customs officers at birmingham airport seized a giant squash from a passenger who was trying to smuggle it into britain from asia . the 4ft-long vegetable , which weighed in more than at 4st , was found with 175lb -lrb- 79kg -rrb- of fish and 94,000 cigarettes from bangladesh . a spokesman for solihull council said : ` it is a bit of a rare find , as you can imagine we do get cigarettes a lot , but not a squash , especially not one of this size . ' america 's tsa -lrb- transport security administration -rrb- even has an instagram account where it documents the weird wonder , and sometimes downright dangerous , items confiscated at security . fatu took her father to monrovia , the capital city , about a god . '' now he 's working to find a scholarship for fatu so she can finish her final year of nursing school . he has no doubt his daughter will go on to save many more people during her life . `` i 'm sure she 'll be a great giant of liberia , '' he said . ebola patients left to lay on the ground .
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a passenger flying from newcastle airport to gatwick was pulled aside at security after staff thought his pease pudding was semtex , a plastic explosive . it can be exhausting nursing a child through a nasty bout with the flu , so imagine how 22-year-old fatu kekula felt nursing her entire family through ebola . her father . her mother . her sister . her cousin . fatu took care of them all , single-handedly feeding them , cleaning them and giving them medications . and she did so with remarkable success . three out of her four patients survived . that 's a 25 % death rate -- considerably better than the estimated ebola death rate of 70 % . fatu stayed healthy , which is noteworthy considering that more than 300 health care workers have become infected with ebola , and she did n't even have personal protection equipment -- those white space suits and goggles used in ebola treatment units . instead fatu , who 's in her final year of nursing school , invented her own equipment . international aid workers heard about fatu 's `` trash bag method '' and are now teaching it to other west africans who ca n't get into hospitals and do n't have protective gear of their own . every day , several times a day for about two weeks , fatu put trash bags over her socks and tied them in a knot over her calves . then she put on a pair of rubber hold luggage the next time he was travelling . the traveller has also placed several greggs pies in his hand luggage for the journey . an customs spokeswoman said : ` there is no customs policy with regard to pease pudding so far as i am aware . ' when mailonline contacted a newcastle airport spokeswoman , she said they do not comment on security matters . it is not the first time unusual items have been picked up by airport security scanners . stansted airport has previously confiscated items including furry handcuffs , while two italian women were stopped at munich airport , in germany for trying to transport a human skeleton belonging to a dead relative . last year , customs officers at birmingham airport seized a giant squash from a passenger who was trying to smuggle it into britain from asia . the 4ft-long vegetable , which weighed in more than at 4st , was found with 175lb -lrb- 79kg -rrb- of fish and 94,000 cigarettes from bangladesh . a spokesman for solihull council said : ` it is a bit of a rare find , as you can imagine we do get cigarettes a lot , but not a squash , especially not one of this size . ' america 's tsa -lrb- transport security administration -rrb- even has an instagram account where it documents the weird wonder , and sometimes downright dangerous , items confiscated at security . fatu took her father to monrovia , the capital city , about a god . '' now he 's working to find a scholarship for fatu so she can finish her final year of nursing school . he has no doubt his daughter will go on to save many more people during her life . `` i 'm sure she 'll be a great giant of liberia , '' he said . ebola patients left to lay on the ground .
 A passenger flying from Newcastle Airport to Gatwick was pulled aside at security after staff thought his pudding-like substance was suspicious. The man, who had been nursing his family through Ebola, had been carrying the substance as a way to cope with the trauma. He had invented his own equipment and was teaching others in West Africa how to care for patients with Ebola. Despite initial concerns, airport security eventually cleared him of any wrongdoing.