First Ebola case confirmed in UK


A healthcare worker who has just returned from West Africa has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in a Hospital in Glasgow.

The woman, who arrived from Sierra Leone, last Sunday night, is in isolation at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital.

All possible contacts with the case are being investigated, including on flights to Scotland via Heathrow. The woman will be transferred to specialist high level isolation in London.

At a news conference in Glasgow, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon stressed that the risk to the general public is low.

She added that the patient is believed to have had contact with only one other person since arriving in the city, but that all passengers on the flights the woman took will be traced.

BBC