UK doctor with Ebola flown from DR Congo for London hospital care

A British doctor who tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has returned to the UK. The unnamed man landed at RAF Northolt before being transferred in a secure convoy to a specialist infectious diseases unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London. This marks the first confirmed case of a UK national contracting the virus during the ongoing outbreak in DR Congo. Officials have noted that the overall risk to the public remains low due to well-established containment procedures. The Royal Free Hospital previously treated health workers evacuated during the 2014 and 2015 West Africa Ebola outbreak. The current outbreak in DR Congo is driven by the Bundibugyo variant and has become the second most deadly recorded series of infections.