{"id":10429,"date":"2026-11-05T22:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/ebola-patient-flown-to-uk-from-dr-congo\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T22:15:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:15:46","slug":"ebola-patient-flown-to-uk-from-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/ebola-patient-flown-to-uk-from-dr-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola patient flown to UK from DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Ebola-patient-flown-to-UK-from-DR-Congo.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ebola patient flown to UK from DR Congo\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Ebola-patient-flown-to-UK-from-DR-Congo.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-98-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-98-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-98-1536x865.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-98.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A UK medic who tested positive for Ebola while working on the outbreak of the disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been flown to London for treatment, the government\u00a0said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unnamed British citizen \u201chas returned to the UK for specialist treatment after testing positive for the disease\u201d, the government said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Africa\u2019s latest Ebola outbreak has killed more than 5,300 people, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the continent\u2019s top health agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British government said that the UK medic is now being treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This hospital has a high-level isolation unit \u201cspecifically designed for this purpose\u201d and strict protocols to prevent contact with the general public, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Renu Bindra, deputy director of the all hazards public health response team at the UK health security agency (UKHSA) said \u201cthe risk to the wider public remains low\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, Nigeria reported an Ebola case involving a 42-year-old Swiss woman whose husband works at the country\u2019s embassy. She was flown for treatment in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/ebola-patient-flown-to-uk-from-dr-congo\/\">Ebola patient flown to UK from DR Congo<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK medic who tested positive for Ebola while working on the outbreak of the disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been flown to London for treatment, the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}