“The healthcare worker arrived in the UK on Monday 2 February 2015 and has been admitted to the Royal Free Hospital in London for assessment. At this time, they have not been diagnosed with Ebola and do not have symptoms,” the statement said.
On Saturday, the Royal Air Force transported another frontline UK military health care worker back to Britain after receiving a needlestick injury while treating an Ebola patient in Sierra Leone.
The same accident occurred with the second patient, according to PHE. Both patients will be monitored for 21 days after admission, equivalent to Ebola virus' incubation period.
The hospital had earlier treated two UK nurses confirmed to have contracted the virus in Sierra Leone in 2014. Pauline Cafferkey was successfully treated and discharged from the hospital, while Ebola survivor William Pooley was the first British national to be evacuated from West Africa, later returning to work in Sierra Leone after recovering.
Currently, there are some 600 British military personnel fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone.
According to the World Health Organization, the current outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which began in December 2013, has killed over 8,800 people worldwide. Three West African nations — Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea — have the highest Ebola death toll.
Meanwhile, the first mass trial of a vaccine against the Ebola virus began on Monday in Liberia.
