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Patient being tested for Ebola in Manchester

In Britain, a patient's being checked for ebola at a hospital in Manchester.  Public Health ...
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11.36 13 Jan 2015


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Patient being tested for Ebola in Manchester

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In Britain, a patient's being checked for ebola at a hospital in Manchester. 

Public Health England says testing's being done as a precaution on someone who's recently returned from west Africa. They're in isolation at North Manchester General.

According to BBC, no further details are being released about the patient.

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A Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust spokesman told the broadcaster that the patient was "undergoing a series of tests following travel to West Africa, as a precaution one of which is for Ebola".

Meanwhile, the London hospital treating a British nurse who contracted the virus in Sierra Leone says she's no longer critically ill.


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