According to BBC Reports the seventh UK healthcare worker has been flown back home after suspected contact with Ebola.
Though the patient has no symptoms presently, he worked at Sierra Leon as a United States volunteer medic with another volunteer who got the virus.
The last Royal Free patient sustained a needlestick injury while caring for an Ebola patient in Sierra Leone, something that is considered one of the most dangerous ways of being exposed to the virus.
The patients have reportedly been assessed and discharged from the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, but will be kept under close observation.
Public Health England however assures that the risk to the general public from Ebola remained "very low".
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