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if that s anywhere she s going to be that s the place. they ve successfully dealt with one ebola patient already. any update on her condition? reporter: not so far. what we know from the hospital is she s in the high level isolation unit, a unit set up in 2006 designed for the isolation treatment of people with infectious diseases. william pooley a medical worker who was in west africa caught ebola, was brought back here and successfully treated several months ago. this new patient, a woman, she is the first to be diagnosed with ebola in britain. she had returned from an assignment in sierra leone. she is a nurse with the national health service here in the uk based in scotland. she was volunteering for the save the children fund. she had gone out there to work to help people with ebola late november. she was returning, got back late sunday felt ill yesterday
what we re seeing now here in port two additional ebola cases, in addition to the one at the hospital where you are at. reporter: that s right. the one in scotland currently in a remote hospital being transferred shortly we understand to the hospital main hospital in coastal city of aberdeen. that will be for continued monitoring and checks to see if this person has ebola. they were recently in west africa although that person hasn t been believed to have had any contact, direct contact with people who have ebola. so yes at the moment we now have these two other cases, as well as the one that s being treated here at the high level isolation unit at the royal free hospital. the person here is a woman, we know she s a nurse.