A humanitarian worker infected with the fever is to be evacuated to the UK

Lilia Sebouai

Global Health Security Reporter

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Lilia Sebouai is a reporter for The Telegraph’s Global Health Security and Foreign desks. She covers topics including infectious disease, emerging threats, humanitarian crises and conflict.

Published 05 November 2026 5:20pm GMT

A British man who has tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is being flown back to the UK for treatment.

The patient, whose identity has not been revealed, but is believed to be a healthcare worker, is said to be in a stable condition.

They will be transferred to a specialist ambulance and then on to the Royal Free hospital, a rare diseases specialist hospital in north London, which houses the UK’s primary high level isolation unit.

Yesterday, a UK government spokesperson said there were “well-established procedures for dealing with cases like this” and that the risk to the public “remains low”.

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