Suspected Ebola patient isolated at Glasgow hospital after overseas travel
A Glasgow patient returning from Ebola-affected travel was isolated at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, prompting precautions around 6am Tuesday.
A patient at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow was isolated after arriving at the Acute Receiving Unit around 6am Tuesday with suspected Ebola, prompting infection-control precautions and a partial closure of part of the unit. The hospital, which serves NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, is at 1345 Govan Road in Govan, Glasgow, G51 4TF.
Clinicians should consider Ebola in any acutely unwell patient with fever who has left the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Uganda in the previous 21 days, move the patient immediately to an empty room, restrict staff contact, keep relatives and visitors out, use appropriate PPE and escalate suspected cases urgently to local infection specialists and the UKHSA health protection team. Public Health Scotland has well-established protocols for assessing and testing such travellers, with contact tracing and precautionary testing used where needed.
An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda was declared on 15 May 2026 after laboratory tests confirmed Bundibugyo virus, a strain for which WHO says there is no vaccine or specific treatment. By June 27, the DRC had confirmed 1,274 cases and 360 deaths, the third-largest outbreak on record, according to CDC. UKHSA considers the overall risk to the UK population low, while still urging health services to stay alert for returning travellers.
If the Glasgow patient is confirmed to have Ebola, it would be the first case in the UK in more than a decade. A suspected case in Glasgow in 2016 later tested negative. There were no confirmed cases in Scotland, and the risk to the general public remained low.
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