the railway or road journey from Bonn to East Berlin.

Death of Egon Sreffer 
It was not the changes admumbrating the end of the German Democratic Republic that put an end to this arrangement, but the death of Egon Streffer on 22 August 1989.   Aged just 44 he suffered a fatal heart attack.   There was no proof offered for the suggestions that his death had been AIDS related.

Arrest, trial, conviction, sentencing and imprisonment 
Some months before reunification, and during the dissolution of the East German security services, Popp's activities were reported to the authorities by - according to Popp's own report of the matter - Eberhard Lehmann, a former Stasi informer.   Popp was arrested on 14 May 1990 at his home by "threeA health worker who travelled from Ebola-hit Sierra Leone with Pauline Cafferkey has strongly criticised Public Health England for referring her to a misconduct inquiry even though she had been given the green light to travel on from Heathrow to Glasgow by its own staff.

Cafferkey and two other nurses remain at risk of being struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) more than a year after the investigation into the events at Heathrow in December 2014 was launched.

The nurse twice came close to death following her return – first from Ebola and later from meningitis triggered by the virus lingering in her body. It is understood she has told friends that it is impossible to put the troubled times behind her until the inquiry concludes.

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