Second patient in Scotland being tested
for Ebola: first minister
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[December 30, 2014]
LONDON (Reuters) - A second health
worker is being tested for Ebola in Scotland after returning from West
Africa, a day after another was diagnosed with the disease in Glasgow,
Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday.
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Sturgeon told BBC radio there was a "low probability" the second
worker had the disease.
"Although this is another returning healthcare worker from West
Africa, the patient here has had no, as far as we're aware, direct
contact with people infected with Ebola," said Sturgeon.
"This patient over the course of today will be transferred for
tests."
(Reporting by William James and Andy Bruce; Editing by Andrew
Heavens)
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