--- title: Ebola: Scottish Patient Flown To London description: A health care worker who recently returned to Scotland from Sierra Leone is being treated for the Ebola at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital canonical: https://time.com/3648857/ebola-glasgow-london/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-29T19:20:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:08.953Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola: Scottish Patient Flown To London og:description: A health care worker who recently returned to Scotland from Sierra Leone is being treated for the Ebola at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital og:url: https://time.com/3648857/ebola-glasgow-london/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt850bfbb469940111/6987696535ba6f523dc05646/ebola1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ebola og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola: Scottish Patient Flown To London twitter:description: A health care worker who recently returned to Scotland from Sierra Leone is being treated for the Ebola at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt850bfbb469940111/6987696535ba6f523dc05646/ebola1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Scottish Ebola Patient Flown to London ## Video: Dame Sally Davies, England's Chief Medical Officer: Public Not at Risk [Watch (HLS stream): Dame Sally Davies, England's Chief Medical Officer: Public Not at Risk](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/AtJMtk4P.m3u8) (0:40)  _Published 2014-12-31. Dame Sally Davies, England's Cheif Medical Officer says the public are not at risk._ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Dec 29, 2014 7:20 PM UTC  Colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Ebola virus. Colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Ebola virus.Getty Images by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Dec 29, 2014 7:20 PM UTC A health worker who recently returned from Sierra Leone has been flown to London after being diagnosed with Ebola in Glasgow. The female aid worker, named by local media as Pauline Cafferkey, arrived late Sunday night to Glasgow Airport on a British Airways flight, having traveled from Sierra Leone to Casablanca and London before reaching Scotland. NHS Scotland, the country’s health care system, said in a [statement](http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/Ebola-case-1414.aspx) it has rolled out its infectious disease protocol. “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,” First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said in the statement. “We have the robust procedures in place to identify cases rapidly. Our health service also has the expertise and facilities to ensure that confirmed Ebola cases such as this are contained and isolated effectively minimising any potential spread of the disease.” The patient has been isolated and is receiving care in the Brownlee Unit for Infectious Diseases of Gartnavel Hospital. Per U.K. and Scottish protocol, the woman was transferred to another high-level isolation unit at London’s Royal Free hospital. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3648857/ebola-glasgow-london/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3648857/ebola-glasgow-london/"},"headline":"Scottish Ebola Patient Flown to London","datePublished":"2014-12-29T19:20:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:00:08.953Z","description":"Patient has been isolated and is receiving treatment","url":"https://time.com/3648857/ebola-glasgow-london/","keywords":["ebola","Sierra Leone","Ebola outbreak","Scotland topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt850bfbb469940111/6987696535ba6f523dc05646/ebola1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt850bfbb469940111/6987696535ba6f523dc05646/ebola1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ebola","caption":"Colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Ebola virus.","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3648857/ebola-glasgow-london/","name":"Scottish Ebola Patient Flown to London"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Dame Sally Davies, England's Chief Medical Officer: Public Not at Risk","description":"Dame Sally Davies, England's Cheif Medical Officer says the public are not at risk.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/AtJMtk4P/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-31T06:22:20.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/AtJMtk4P.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3648857/ebola-glasgow-london/","duration":"PT40S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3648857/ebola-glasgow-london/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```