Plane carrying British Ebola victim leaves Sierra Leone for Britain

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Plane carrying British Ebola victim leaves Sierra Leone for Britain

A Royal Air Force plane carrying a British healthcare worker who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone - the first Briton to catch the deadly virus - took off from the capital Freetown on Sunday bound for Britain. The U.K. Department of Health said in a statement the man was not seriously ill and it had decided to repatriate the British national following clinical advice. Upon arrival at the RAF Northolt airbase in Britain, he will be transported to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London, the department said. "Protective measures will be strictly maintained to minimise the risk of transmission to staff transporting the patient to the UK and healthcare workers treating the individual," said Paul Cosford, Director for Health Protection at Public Health England.

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