{"id":3215,"date":"2014-08-25T07:10:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T06:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2014-08-25T07:10:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T06:10:49","slug":"briton-begins-uk-treatment-for-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/briton-begins-uk-treatment-for-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Briton begins UK treatment for Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors at a hospital in north-west London have begun treating a Briton who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>The man has been named as William Pooley, a 29-year-old volunteer nurse, by a US scientist who worked with him.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pooley was flown to RAF Northolt in a specially-equipped military aircraft on Sunday and taken under police escort to Hampstead&#8217;s Royal Free Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He volunteered to go to west Africa to care for victims of the Ebola outbreak which has killed almost 1,500 people.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first confirmed case of a Briton contracting the virus during the current outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors at a hospital in north-west London have begun treating a Briton who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone. The man has been named as William Pooley, a 29-year-old volunteer nurse, by a US scientist who worked with him. Mr Pooley was flown to RAF Northolt in a specially-equipped military aircraft on Sunday and taken under &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/briton-begins-uk-treatment-for-ebola\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Briton begins UK treatment for Ebola<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24,6,30,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alc-health-news","category-alc-international-health-insurance-news","category-alc-travel-news","category-expat-alert","category-expat-global-health-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}