British healthcare worker infected with Ebola to be flown home from DR Congo

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British healthcare worker with Ebola to be flown home from DR Congo

On Wednesday, a British healthcare worker infected with Ebola was reported to be heading home from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to an official document seen by Reuters. The patient is stable and will go to a high-consequence infectious disease unit. Al Jazeera reported on Tuesday that the Bundibugyo-strain outbreak has killed more than 5,300 people in DR Congo and spread to Kenya and Uganda. Elsewhere, a child died of measles in New York and a Washington state resident died of bird flu.

• Al Jazeera says the Ebola outbreak has killed more than 5,300 people in DR Congo and reached Kenya and Uganda; two suspected cases in Nigeria tested negative.
• New York officials say a child in Lewis County died of measles, the state's first measles death in 30 years.
• A Washington state resident died of avian influenza on or before Monday, the first US human death from it in a year.
• Officials say anthrax has killed 30 hippos in Virunga National Park since September.