Scotland's Ebola case has already been confirmed to be the first ever case of the fatal disease in the United Kingdom country.
Per BBC's latest update on Ebola cases worldwide, the first Scottish patient is a woman, whose identity is yet to be revealed by the authorities.
The woman is said to be a health worker, who has just returned from working with Charity Save the Children at the Ebola Treatment Centre in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone.
Upon her return to the country, the woman, who began to manifest the signs and symptoms of Ebola, was put on isolation at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital in Glasgow.
"The patient was admitted to hospital early in the morning (Monday) after feeling unwell and was placed into isolation at 7.50 a.m.," the official statement from the government read. "All possible contacts with the patient are now being investigated and anyone deemed to be at risk will be contacted and closely monitored."
The Scottish government confirmed that this is Scotland's first Ebola case and that the patient is already undergoing infectious-disease procedures, reports USA Today.
Nonetheless, because this is considered to be the first ever diagnosed case of Ebola virus infection in the United Kingdom, to spare the public from being put at risk, the woman is to be transported to a specialist unit in London.
"Scotland has been preparing for this possibility from the beginning of the outbreak in West Africa, and I am confident that we are well-prepared," Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said, noting that the woman is now "stable."
UK Health Secretary Jeremy hunt said the health worker is to be flown via air ambulance to the Royal Free Hospital in north London as soon as possible.
Amid the confirmation of Scotland's Ebola case, the government ensured the public that there is nothing to fear. "Having been diagnosed in the very early stages of the illness, the risk to others is considered extremely low."
In August, William Pooley, a British health care worker, was reported to have contracted the virus in Sierra Leone. He received treatment in the same London specialist unit and was discharged after, only to return to Sierra leone to continue his work at an Ebola isolation unit in Freetown, CBCNews has learned.
On Monday, the World Health Organisation announced that the death toll due to the Ebola outbreak has already reached 7,842 in West Africa.
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