Ebola: military healthcare worker returns to UK after needle injury

Unnamed individual is likely to have been exposed to the virus in Sierra Leone but does not have symptoms

A British military healthcare worker who suffered a needlestick injury while treating an Ebola patient in Sierra Leone has been evacuated to the UK.

The healthcare worker arrived back in the UK on Saturday on an RAF flight and is being assessed at the specialist isolation unit at the Royal Free hospital in north London.

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