British Ebola patient to fly to UK

Another country imports a dangerous disease

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by BBC | August 24, 2014

A Briton who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone is being flown back to the UK on an RAF jet, the UK Department for Health has said.

The patient, who is a healthcare worker, is to be flown to RAF Northolt and will then be transported to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.
The Briton is “not currently seriously unwell”, a spokesman said.
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