Two more people in Britain are being tested for Ebola today as the authorities hunt for hundreds of air passengers who may have had contact with a nurse who brought the disease to the UK.

The woman, who had been treating patients stricken by the deadly disease in Sierra Leone, has been moved from Glasgow to London this morning for specialist treatment.

Dressed in jogging bottoms, a tracksuit top and with her face covered, she was pictured for the first time walking unaided from an ambulance to her bed.

Today questions are being asked about the Government's Ebola screening programme because the woman was vetted twice – in Sierra Leone and at Heathrow – without any symptoms being detected.

She fell ill only hours after returning home from Africa having flown back to Scotland from Africa via Heathrow.

Officials are particularly keen to trace 71 passengers who were also on board her British Airways flight from London to Glasgow on Sunday evening.

This morning Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said a second health worker is being tested for Ebola in Scotland after returning from West Africa, but said there was a 'low probability' they have the disease.

Hours later she told doctors she feared she had Ebola and was taken to a Glasgow hospital by special ambulance, immediately isolated and diagnosed with the virus.

Experts said early symptoms, including fever, headache, muscle pain and sore throat develop suddenly. A person is only infectious at the point at which they begin to show symptoms.

This morning she was moved to the Royal Free Hospital in London after being loaded onto a military aircraft in a cocoon by medical staff in protective suits at Glasgow Airport.

It also emerged this morning that another patient is being tested for Ebola after being admitted to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro last night and is being kept in isolation for 24 hours while they wait for the results.
There are also fears for passengers and staff who had close contact with the nurse, who flew from Freetown to London via Morocco before reaching Scotland late on Sunday night.

Officials are urgently trying to trace 71 people on her British Airways BA1478 flight from London to Glasgow. They will also be contacting passengers who were sitting near her on her other flights back to the UK via Casablanca – Royal Air Maroc flights AT596 and AT0800.

At the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London, the health worker will be admitted through a specially-assigned hospital entrance, before being taken to the high-level isolation unit – the only ward in the UK equipped to cope with Ebola.

It is the same isolation unit that nursed William Pooley back to health after he contracted Ebola in August.

Paul Cosford, medical director for Public Health England, told Sky News the woman was 'very brave'

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