British Army medic with Ebola evacuated with two other suspected cases
A female Army medic has caught the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone, and four colleagues she was in close contact with are under observation
By Victoria Ward, and Ben Farmer
TelegraphUK
12 Mar 2015
A female Army medic who has caught Ebola while working in Sierra Leone is being flown back to Britain by the RAF, along with two workers who have been in close contact with her.
Two further health workers who have been exposed to the unnamed soldier are being tested in Sierra Leone and could be evacuated later.
A specially equipped RAF C-17 took off from Sierra Leone at 7am on Thursday morning and is expected to land at RAF Northolt later today.
The medic will then be transferred to London’s Royal Free Hospital (RFH), where previous Ebola patients have been kept in isolation and treated.
The woman is the third British health care worker confirmed to have caught the deadly virus, which has ravaged West Africa and killed more than 9,800 in the past year.
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