A BRIT doctor with Ebola returned to the UK from the Democratic Republic of Congo and is receiving NHS treatment in a London hospital.
The man is currently in isolation at the Royal Free Hospital in London – the country’s top infectious disease unit.
He was evacuated on a medical flight and arrived on Thursday, the Department of Health said.
Dr Renu Bindra, from the UK Health Security Agency, said “the risk to the wider public remains low”.
The doctor will be just the fifth ever case of the deadly bleeding virus in the UK, and the first British national linked to the current outbreak.
They were diagnosed while helping to tackle the in its history, which has killed more than 5,000 people since May.
The high-level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital includes a special tent with controlled ventilation.
All air leaving the unit is cleaned so there is no risk to anyone inside or outside of the hospital.
The three former patients all caught the disease during an outbreak in west Africa in 2014 and 2015.
Britain’s fourth case was a scientist infected in a government laboratory accident in 1976, who recovered at the former Coppetts Wood Hospital in London.
The current patient is reported to be in a stable condition but the risk remains high as more than half of patients die and there is no known cure.
More than 10,000 people have been infected by the current outbreak in the DRC – the second-largest on record.
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