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British healthcare worker with Ebola evacuated from DR Congo to UK

Patient is ⁠in ​stable condition and will be transferred to a specialist ‘high consequence’ infectious disease unit A British healthcare worker with Ebola is being evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the UK for medical treatment, it has been confirmed. “A British citizen currently in the DR Congo has tested positive for Ebola,” a spokesperson for the UK government said in a statement on Wednesday.

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