Monday, August 25, 2014

(*) LONDON - A British healthcare employee staying in Sierra Leone, who has been identify problem with the Ebola virus disease, has been delivered back to London, British sources said on Sunday.


The Department of Health accepted that, ensuing clinical aid, a conclusion has been made to depart the British patient, who is ?not presently vigorously sick?.
The patient is being medically departed in a uniquely armed C17 Royal Air Force (RAF) plane to RAF Northolt airport, the bureau said in a declaration.
Upon landing in Britain, the patient will be departed to an separate division at the Royal Free Hospital in north London, according to the declaration.
Local media informed that, the 29-year-old, supposed to be a male nurse named William, caught the virus while caring for suffering at a hospital where 15 nurses have earlier died of the deadly virus.
But the authority of Health added: ?No additional analysis about the patient will be supply due to patient confidentiality.?
Professor John Watson, Deputy Head Medical agent, console the public that, the general danger to the public in Britain ?remains very low?.
UK hospitals have a convincing history of handling with imported infectious virus and dangerous diseases and this patient will be segregated and will seize the inest care possible,? he said.
Dr Paul Cosford, Director for Health Protection at Public Health England, also added that: ?For Ebola to be transferred from one person to another contact with blood or other body liquids is required and as such, the danger to the general population remains very low.?
In view to the World Health Organization, the Ebola virus is contagious over contact with bodily fluids or liquids, people taking care or working encircled affected sufferer are known to be a high-risk group.
As of August. 20, the overall cases registered to the deadly and dangerous virus in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone has marked 2,615, in addition to 1,427 deaths.

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