Monday 29 December 2014

FIRST EBOLA CASE CONFIRMED IN GLASLOW, SCOTLAND

According to BBC news, Scotland recorded its first ebola case today when Ebola patient, reported to be a health worker who arrived Scotland from Sierra Leone today December 29th where she was helping to care for Ebola victims. All possible contacts with the case are being investigated, including on flights to Scotland via Heathrow. At a news conference in Glasgow, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon stressed that the risk to the general public was very low.
She added that the patient was thought to have had contact with only one other person since arriving in the city, but that all passengers on the flights the woman took will be traced.

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