Ebola patient flown to UK from DR Congo

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 said Thursday.
The unnamed British citizen “has returned to the UK for specialist treatment after testing positive for the disease”, the government said in a statement.
Africa’s 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’s top health agency.
The British government said that the UK medic is now being treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
This hospital has a high-level isolation unit “specifically d...