A female healthcare worker who has been diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Scotland from Sierra Leone is in a stable condition in hospital in Glasgow.
The woman had been working with the Save the Children charity at an Ebola treatment centre in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone.
The patient flew back to the UK via Casablanca and London Heathrow before arriving at Glasgow Airport at around 11.30pm yesterday on a British Airways flight.
She was admitted to hospital early this morning after feeling feverish and was placed into isolation in the Brownlee Unit for Infectious Diseases at the city's Gartnavel Hospital at 7.50am.
Health officials are tracing the 71 other people who were on the British Airways flight from London to Glasgow with the woman.
The patient is thought to have had contact with only one other person in Scotland apart from the other passengers on the flight and hospital staff.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the risk to the general public is "extremely low to the point of negligible".
According to UK and Scottish protocol for anyone diagnosed with Ebola, the patient will be transferred to the high-level isolation unit in the Royal Free Hospital, north London, as soon as possible.
This is where the facilities, staff and systems are in place to ensure the best quality and safest care.
Ms Sturgeon said: "Our first thoughts at this time must be with the patient diagnosed with Ebola and their friends and family. I wish them a speedy recovery.
"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.
Health Protection Scotland is making contact with passengers who were on the flight to Glasgow.
Dr Syed Ahmed, of HPS, said: "The healthcare worker did not have any symptoms. The reason we are trying to contact passengers is to make sure that they get the right information.
"We want to reassure them personally by making contact with them and also to let them know what the symptoms are and if they do have any symptoms, they need to contact the NHS."
Dr Alisdair MacConnachie, of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said the patient is clinically stable and should have a good prognosis.
Health Protection England said the healthcare worker left Sierra Leone yesterday and was a passenger on flight AT596 from Freetown to Casablanca, flight AT0800 from Casablanca to London, and transferred at Heathrow to flight BA1478 for onward travel to Glasgow.
It said the risk of infection to other passengers on the flights is considered extremely low but, as a precaution, it is arranging for all passengers and crew on the flight from Casablanca to Heathrow to be provided with health information.
It will be contacting and following up those passengers who were sitting near the affected passenger on these flights.
Here, the HSE has said the Health Protection Surveillance Centre is monitoring the situation closely.
In a statement the HSE said the information to date indicates that no Irish citizens are involved.
It says the HSE has proceedures in place to manage suspected or actual cases of Ebola in Ireland.
These procedures are constantly being reviewed in light of international developments.
