UK Ebola patient moved to London as two more tested in Cornwall and Scotland

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LONDON —The Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in west Africa has been transferred to a specialist unit in London.

The patient arrived at the Royal Free Hospital in North London Tuesday morning, having been flown in a military plane from Glasgow, the BBC reports.

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She's been taken to the same high level isolation unit that treated British nurse William Pooley earlier this year.

The unidentified nurse had returned to Scotland from Sierra Leone via Casablanca to London Heathrow on Royal Air Maroc, then from Heathrow to Glasgow on a British Airways flight, arriving at around 11:30 p.m. Sunday night. A telephone helpline has been set up for anyone travelling on those flights, the number is 08000 858531. Read more...

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