UK military health care worker tests positive for Ebola

LONDON — A British military health care worker in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola.

The unidentified individual is reportedly a woman who was working at an Ebola treatment centre in Kerry Town, southwest of the capital Freetown. She is receiving care, while a decision is made on whether or not she will be evacuated to the UK, according to multiple reports.

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"A clinical decision on whether the individual will be medically evacuated to the UK for treatment will be taken in due course," a Public Health England spokesperson told the London Evening Standard . "An investigation into how the military worker was exposed to the virus is currently under way and tracing of individuals in recent contact with the diagnosed worker is being undertaken." Read more...

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