#HNNHealth UK has it's FIRST #Ebola case and in emergency mode.

Ms Cafferkey left hospital in Glasgow in the early hours of Tuesday

The United Kingdom (UK) has recorded its first case of the Ebola virus, in a healthcare worker who just returned to the country from Sierra Leone.

Hospital authorities said that the victim whose identity was not revealed came to the city on Sunday night and has been in isolation at Glasgow’s Gartnavel Hospital, while all possible contacts with the case are being investigated.

The national health service said that the patient is believed to have had contact with only one other person since arriving in the city, but that all passengers on the flight she took will be traced.

Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, in an emergency meeting on Monday said that as a precaution, Health Protection Scotland has traced and contacted or left messages with 63 of the 70 other passengers who were on the same flight from London to Glasgow with the patient.

According to UK and Scottish protocol, for anyone diagnosed with Ebola, the patient will be transferred to the high level isolation unit in the Royal Free Hospital, London. Nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who is battling Ebola at a London hospital, could be offered plasma from patients who have survived the virus.

The treatment contains antibodies that should help fight the infection.

British nurse William Pooley has donated plasma, Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies confirmed.

Other available treatments include antiviral drugs, but there are no stocks left of ZMapp - the drug used to treat Mr Pooley.

He recovered from Ebola in September after being treated at the Royal Free Hospital, in Hampstead, north London, where Ms Cafferkey is currently being cared for.

Having fought off the infection, his blood should help others do the same.

Dame Sally said it would be up to Ms Cafferkey and her doctor to decide which treatments to use, adding: "The cornerstone of treatment remains fluid and electrolyte treatment."

With files from Leadership and BBC News

#HNNHealth 11th Sierra Leonean doctor infected with #Ebola while our #Nigerian Healthworkers arrive there.

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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Another Sierra Leonean doctor has become infected with Ebola, as the U.N. health agency said Wednesday that poor data from the outbreak is complicating efforts to measure progress in containing the disease.

While the disease is still spreading rapidly in Sierra Leone, health officials have expressed some optimism that the outbreak is stabilizing in Guinea and Liberia. The World Health Organization said Monday that those two countries had met an interim goal to isolate 70 percent of patients and safely bury 70 percent of corpses.Ebola has sickened more than 17,000 people, the majority of those in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The disease has exacted a particularly heavy toll on health workers and another tested positive on Tuesday in Sierra Leone. Dr. Dauda Koroma is being treated at a military hospital in the capital, according to Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brima Kargbo.

But in a report Wednesday, WHO called into question that progress, saying the data is too poor to draw conclusions.

Inconsistencies in data collection mean "this information is not reliable enough at present to draw any conclusions about isolation," the report said. It added that getting information on safe burials was complicated by the fact that many Ebola deaths go unreported.

In Sierra Leone, unsafe burials are thought to be responsible for 70 percent of new infections, Kargbo told reporters Wednesday.

The WHO report said there are enough isolation beds in each country to handle the reported cases — but often not in the places they're needed. Clinics are fairly well distributed in Liberia, the report said, but less so in Guinea. And Sierra Leone needs many more beds in its capital region.

The nation is also short on health care workers. About 100 more African health care workers are expected soon, said Kargbo.

The African Union has promised to send 1,000 health care workers to the three affected countries by the end of the year, but they have been slow to deploy. So far, 87 have arrived, but the AU held a send-off ceremony for 250 more from Nigeria on Wednesday.

DiLorenzo reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press writer Elias Meseret contributed to this report from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

#HNNHealth #Nebraska Hospital FAILS to save life of healthcare worker! Sierra Leone doctor dies of #Ebola

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(Reuters) - A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone died early on Monday of the disease at a Nebraska hospital, medical officials said, the second death from the virus out of 10 known cases treated in the United States.

Dr. Martin Salia, a native of Sierra Leone and a permanent U.S. resident, had been in very critical condition when he arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center on Saturday afternoon, Dr. Phil Smith, director of the biocontainment unit, said at a news conference.

"He had no kidney function, he was working extremely hard to breathe and he was unresponsive," Dr. Daniel Johnson said.

Salia was put on dialysis within hours of his arrival and required intubation and mechanical ventilation within 12 hours. He was given plasma from an Ebola survivor and the drug ZMapp provided by Mapp Biopharmaceutical on Saturday, said Dr. Chris Kratochvil, associate vice chancellor for clinical research at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Salia, 44, who was chief medical officer at United Methodist Kissy Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, tested positive last week for Ebola, the United Methodist Church's news service said.

The news service said it was unclear how or where Salia contracted Ebola. Salia, who had trained as a doctor in Sierra Leone's College of Medicine, also worked at several other medical facilities.

"Our hearts go out to his grieving family," Bishop Warner H. Brown Jr., president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops, said in a statement. "Dr. Salia was a dedicated Christian physician who was living out a calling to serve others."

Salia was flown to the United States at the request of his wife, an American who lives in Maryland.

Salia was the third Ebola patient treated at the Omaha hospital. The two other Ebola patients, who were infected in Liberia, recovered.

Smith said staff who worked directly on Salia will take their temperatures twice a day, check daily for symptoms and log results into a database but will not be limited from working.

"As long as they are asymptomatic they are considered safe," Smith said. "Even if they were infected, they would not spread it to anyone else."

The current outbreak of Ebola is the worst on record. It has killed at least 5,177 people, mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization.

(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins and David Bailey; Editing by Susan Heavey, Doina Chiacu and Bill Trott)

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