British healthcare worker with Ebola evacuated from DR Congo to UK

Patient is ⁠in ​stable condition and will be transferred to a specialist ‘high consequence’ infectious disease unit A British healthcare worker with Ebola is being evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the UK for medical treatment, it has been confirmed. “A British citizen currently in the DR Congo has tested positive for Ebola,” a spokesperson for the UK government said in a statement on Wednesday. “The UK has well-established procedures for dealing with cases like this, and those processes have been activated … The risk to the UK public from Ebola remains low.” Continue reading...

一名在剛果民主共和國參與埃博拉疫情應對的英國醫護人員感染病毒，正被撤回英國接受治療。英國政府稱公眾風險仍然很低，但此次疫情已擴散至多個非洲國家，規模創該國歷史紀錄。