A
Scottish nurse is being treated in an isolation unit in Glasgow after being
diagnosed with the Ebola virus hours after arriving home from West Africa via a
British Airways flight from Heathrow.
The
healthcare worker was admitted to Gartnavel hospital after feeling unwell with
a fever at 7.50am on Monday morning, having flown into the city at 11.30pm on
Sunday. She had spent the last month working as a volunteer with Save the
Children in Sierra Leone to help combat the epidemic.
It
is the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed on UK soil.
Health
experts treating the nurse said she was “quite stable” and showing few signs
causing clinical concern, rising hopes she will survive the disease.
She
had been volunteering at a newly built hospital at Kerry Town in Sierra Leone
run by the charity Save the Children since 23 November. The charity said she
had asked not to be named.
"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," Nicola
Sturgeon, current First Minister of Scotland said in a statement yesterday.
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