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Humanitarian worker in UK hospital after 'potential exposure to Ebola'
The patient remains symptom-free and isolated as specialists monitor for up to 21 days, while UKHSA says the public risk is low.
- A British humanitarian worker arrived in London on Monday for isolation after potential Ebola exposure in the Democratic Republic of Congo , the UK Health Security Agency confirmed.
- As of Sunday, the World Health Organisation reported 2,423 confirmed Ebola cases and 967 deaths, cautioning that the Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the DRC is advancing "substantially faster" than previous epidemics.
- Richard Pebody, director of epidemic and emerging infections at UKHSA, said: "The risk to the general public remains low. This individual has been transferred out of an abundance of caution, and we." The patient is not displaying symptoms while isolated in London.
- A WHO report stated: "The outbreak continues in a complex humanitarian and conflict-affected environment, characterized by highly mobile and often displaced populations, many of whom have limited access to basic services, including food, clean water, shelter, health care and protection." Regional conflict drives transmission.
- The Bundibugyo variation currently dominating the DRC outbreak has no vaccine or specific treatment, but the University of Oxford is set to begin human trials for a new jab which could be ready within weeks.
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