The disease, which shares similarities with Ebola, requires immediate attention and monitoring to prevent its spread in the UK.

Ebola damages blood vessels and causes severe, internal bleeding It spreads from animals to humans, and among humans, through close contact with blood, organs, secretions and other bodily fluids ...

Ebola commonly enters the patient's body through cuts in the skin or when they touch someone's eyes, nose or mouth with early ...

Symptoms of Ebola initially include fever, aches, and other flu-like symptoms, but the infection can rapidly progress and cause widespread organ damage and heavy internal bleeding that seeps out ...

But what was perfectly possible – and genuinely frightening – was that one of us would get malaria, or dysentery, both common in West Africa and both of which share early symptoms with Ebola.

Passengers thought to have virus to be barred from taking flights to UK Will be held at immigration if they appear ill on arrival and quarantined Ebola has ... three weeks for symptoms to appear ...