News: Briton living in Sierra Leone tests positive for Ebola

A British charity worker infected by the deadly ebola virus sweeping through West Africa is to be flown home in a desperate bid to save his life.

The man, the first Briton to contract the disease outside the laboratory, will be transported by the RAF from Sierra Leone, where 392 people are known to have died of the virus this year. The evacuation will take place today or tomorrow.

The decision to fly him back was taken yesterday after a top-level meeting during which Ministers concluded there was ‘no risk’ that the repatriation would trigger an outbreak in the UK.

A British charity worker infected by the deadly ebola virus sweeping through West Africa is to be flown home in a desperate bid to save his life.

The man, the first Briton to contract the disease outside the laboratory, will be transported by the RAF from Sierra Leone, where 392 people are known to have died of the virus this year. The evacuation will take place today or tomorrow.

The decision to fly him back was taken yesterday after a top-level meeting during which Ministers concluded there was ‘no risk’ that the repatriation would trigger an outbreak in the UK.

British volunteer nurse William Pooley, 29