LONDON (AP) - A female health care worker who has just returned from Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in a Glasgow hospital, Scottish authorities said Monday.
Scottish First Minister Nicola
Sturgeon called it the first case of Ebola ever diagnosed inside the United
Kingdom.
The patient flew to Glasgow
via Casablanca and London's Heathrow Airport, arriving late Sunday, the
Scottish government said. The health care worker was admitted to a hospital on
Monday morning after developing a fever.
Sturgeon said the risk to the
public is "extremely low to the point of negligible" and that
pre-planned steps would be taken to protect the public.
"Scotland has been
preparing for this possibility from the beginning of the outbreak in west
Africa, and I am confident that we are well prepared," she said, adding
that the patient is "stable" and would soon be transferred to an
isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
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