# British healthcare worker with Ebola to be evacuated from DRC to UK, document shows

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/british-healthcare-worker-with-ebola-to-be-evacuated-from-drc-to-uk-document-shows/
- Published: 2026-11-04T16:32:31+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T17:03:09+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/04/british-healthcare-worker-ebola-evacuated-drc-to-uk-document-shows
- Topics: Health, Medicine, UK, World

## Key points

- British worker with Ebola is being brought back from the DRC.
- The patient is stable and will receive specialist care.
- Authorities say the risk to the UK public is low.

## Summary

A British healthcare worker with Ebola is being evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the UK for specialist treatment. The patient is in a stable condition, and British authorities say the risk to the UK public is low, with no serious public health impact or disruption to travel and trade expected.

The worker was sent to support the outbreak response by a humanitarian organisation and is the first British national linked to this outbreak. They are expected to arrive on Wednesday or Thursday and be taken by specialist ambulance to a high-consequence infectious disease unit. The DRC outbreak has recorded more than 10,000 confirmed cases and nearly 5,000 deaths by late October; Britain has recorded four confirmed imported Ebola cases since 1976.

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