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The Ebola virus, which has killed more than 670 people in West Africa, is a threat to the UK, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has told the BBC.<\/p>\n

He said he would chair an emergency Cobra meeting on the issue later.<\/p>\n

Mr Hammond said no Britons had been affected so far and there were no cases in the UK, but the government was viewing the outbreak very seriously.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month Public Health England issued an alert to UK doctors to be aware of Ebola’s symptoms.<\/p>\n

Several West African airlines have now stopped flying to Liberia and Sierra Leone amid concerns about the outbreak.<\/p>\n

It comes after an infected Liberian man was found to have travelled through a major Nigerian airport last week.<\/p>\n

‘Managing risk’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Hammond told BBC News the government was “absolutely focused” on tackling the threat posed by the Ebola virus, including looking at “whether there are precautions we need to take – either in the UK or to protect our nationals in the area abroad”.<\/p>\n

He went on: “At the moment we don’t think any British nationals [abroad] are affected and we are fairly confident there are no cases in the UK.<\/p>\n

“But it is a threat, it is something we need to respond to and we will be doing so through the Cobra mechanism.”<\/p>\n

The Department of Health said a man had been tested for Ebola in Birmingham but tests for the virus proved negative.<\/p>\n

A Public Health England spokeswoman said the alert sent to UK doctors on 1 July advised them to be aware of the symptoms of Ebola, especially in people who had recently returned from the affected area.<\/p>\n

Issuing national medical alerts was a very common event, she added.<\/p>\n

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People in affected areas have been advised to regularly clean their hands to combat the spread of Ebola<\/div>\n

Earlier, the government’s chief scientific adviser\u00a0Sir Mark Walport told the Daily Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0Ebola was a threat because of how “interconnected” the world was now.<\/p>\n

Sir Mark said: “The most dangerous infections of humans have always been those which have emerged from other species. They are a potential major threat to us.<\/p>\n

“Emerging infectious disease is a global grand challenge. We were lucky with Sars. But we have to do the best horizon scanning.<\/p>\n

“We have to think about risk and managing risk appropriately.”<\/p>\n

Early treatment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Dr Brian McCloskey, director of global health at Public Health England, said the outbreak was “clearly not yet under control” in West Africa.<\/p>\n

“The risk to UK travellers and people working in [affected countries] of contracting Ebola is very low but we have alerted UK medical practitioners about the situation in West Africa and requested they remain vigilant for unexplained illness in those who have visited the affected area.<\/p>\n

“It is important to stress that no cases of imported Ebola have ever been reported in the UK and the risk of a traveller going to West Africa and contracting Ebola remains very low since Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person.”<\/p>\n

BBC global health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar said the West African outbreak had been going on for four months.<\/p>\n

In that time local people had been looking after the sick and carrying out burials, which could actually help to spread the virus, she added.<\/p>\n

Ebola kills up to 90% of those infected, but patients have a better chance of survival if they receive early treatment.<\/p>\n

The outbreak – the world’s deadliest to date – was first reported in Guinea in February. It then spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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