A school visit by a charity worker in Greater Manchester has been cancelled because some parents were reportedly worried their children would be infected by ebola.
Miriam Mason-Sesay and her nine-year-old son, Kofi - who was due to study at St Simon's Catholic Primary School in Stockton - are from Sierra Leone.
They have been screened, are healthy and have been given unrestricted movement in the UK.
The school tried to reassure parents that they posed no risk but a number of parents were insistent the visit should not go ahead.
In a statement, headteacher Elizabeth Inman said: "A significant number of parents have been in touch with me to express their fears.
"Ebola cannot be spread as some parents have suggested.
"There are many parents who believe that the visit should have gone ahead and that we are contributing to misunderstandings by cancelling it.
"The misguided hysteria emerging is extremely disappointing, distracting us from our core purpose of educating your children and is not an environment that I would wish a visitor to experience."
Speaking to Sky News, Ms Mason-Sesay said she and Kofi had come from Sierra Leone on Thursday evening for fund-raising purposes - something she does every March and October for the charity, EducAid, which was started by her brother and a friend who set up schools for children out there.
The charity worker, who has been in the West African country since 2000, said she and her son had not had any contact with anyone with ebola while in Sierra Leone - or anyone who had been in contact with someone who had had it.
"Absolutely not," she insisted. "That's the trouble really. There have been 600 deaths but we're talking about a population of six million, it's less than 0.1%. It's not hiding behind every bush.
"It's a very nasty disease but you have to go looking to get it. You have to be a health worker or a care worker for somebody who is seriously ill.
"It's disappointing that people would think I would endanger their children in that way and be going round other schools if I were a genuine risk."
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