UK providing specialist care to aid worker with Ebola
A British person has been diagnosed with Ebola after helping with the outbreak response in the DRC and has been brought to the UK for specialist treatment.
What is Ebola and how do you catch it?
Ebola has been in the news since the World Health Organization's declaration of a public health emergency of international concern on 17 May 2026, for an outbreak affecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda and Kenya. This blog post outlines what the disease is, how it spreads, and what it means for the …