14 DAY TRIAL // Just yesterday, the UK National Health Service announced that a healthcare worker in Glasgow, Scotland, had been diagnosed with the deadly Ebola disease.
The patient is now in isolation and specialists say that the risk that the disease was passed on to other people before the healthcare worker was diagnosed is extremely low.
It is understood that the patient, whose identity has not yet been made public, contracted the virus while looking after Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.
The healthcare worker left Sierra Leone on December 28 and flew to Casablanca, Morocco. From here, they traveled to the London Heathrow Airport and then to the Glasgow Airport.
According to the UK National Health Service, the patient started feeling ill on the morning of December 29. At about 7:50 a.m., the healthcare worker was admitted to hospital and placed in isolation.
As mentioned, experts argue that the risk to the general public is extremely low. This is because the patient was diagnosed and isolated while the disease was still in its early stages.
“It is important to be reassured that although a case has been identified, the overall the risk to the public continues to be low,” Professor Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer, said in a statement.
Still, efforts are now being made to locate the people whom the healthcare workers might have had contact with while traveling from Sierra Leone to Scotland and place them under observation.
Word has it that, unless their condition goes from bad to worse, the Ebola patient will soon be transferred to the Royal Free Hospital in London.
It's important to note the this healthcare worker is the first person to have until now been diagnosed with Ebola not just in Scotland, but in the entire UK.