#DEVELOPING Ebola case confirmed in the UK A healthcare worker who has just returned from West Africa has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in hospital in Glasgow. The patient, who arrived from Sierra Leone on Sunday night, is receiving treatment at Glasgows Gartnavel Hospital. All possible contacts with the patient are now being investigated. Sources told the BBC the Ebola case involved a female aid worker. NHS Scotland said infectious diseases procedures had been put into effect. The patient has been isolated and is receiving treatment in the specialist Brownlee Unit for Infectious Diseases on the Gartnavel Hospital campus. They returned to Scotland from Sierra Leone late on Sunday night via Casablanca and London Heathrow, arriving into Glasgow Airport on a British Airways flight at about 23:30. While public health experts have emphasised that the risks are negligible, a telephone helpline has been set up for anyone who was on the Heathrow to Glasgow flight last night. The number is: 08000 858531. The patient was admitted to hospital early in the morning after feeling unwell and was placed into isolation at 07.50. [BBC NEWS]
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:12:00 +0000
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