#Ebola: British National Flown Home In An RAF Jet.......

A Briton who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone is being flown back to the UK on an RAF jet, the UK Department for Health has said.

The patient, who is a healthcare worker, is to be flown to RAF Northolt and will then transported to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.

The Briton is "not currently seriously unwell", a spokesman said.

  

The Department for Health said the patient was being "medically evacuated" in a specially equipped C17 RAF aircraft following "clinical advice".

It is the first confirmed case of a Briton contracting the virus, for which there is no cure, during the latest outbreak.

A statement from Sierra Leone's health ministry said the Briton was a man who had been volunteering at a clinic in the Kenema district of Sierra Leone.

Sidie Yayah Tunis, director of communications at the health ministry, said the patient had been flown out of the country's main airport in the town of Lungi.

BBC