Britain: Ebola Case Reported in Glasgow

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A woman who had been working in Sierra Leone was being treated Monday for Ebola in a Glasgow hospital. The woman, identified only as a health care worker for Britain’s National Health Service, arrived in Glasgow on Sunday night via Casablanca, Morocco, and Heathrow Airport in London, the Scottish government said. The Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the woman was believed to have had contact with only one person in Glasgow. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the woman would be transferred soon to a specialist unit in London. Britain’s only previous case in the current outbreak was William Pooley, a nurse who also contracted the disease in Sierra Leone. He survived.

The development came as 49 new cases emerged in Liberia, the country’s assistant health minister, Tolbert Nyenswah, said. The cases, in western Grand Cape Mount County, represented a setback after recent improvements.