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London: The fatal Ebola virus, which has killed hundreds of people
since February, could be a threat to Britain, Foreign Secretary Philip
Hammond said. The disease has killed more than 600 people in West
Africa, Xinhua reported. According to Hammond, no Britons have been
affected so far and the government has been viewing the outbreak very
seriously. "In terms of the UK, the issue is about the possibility of
somebody who has contracted the disease in Africa getting sick here."
"It is not about the disease spreading in the UK because we have
frankly different standards of infection control procedure that would
make that most unlikely," Hammond said. Public Health England (PHE)
has already issued an alert to British doctors to be aware of Ebola
symptoms. Fears of global outbreak were raised last week, after a man
showing signs of Ebola left Liberia on a flight to Lagos, where he
later died.
