Reacción a "France has confirmed a case of Ebola in a doctor who worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"

Healthcare workers are on the frontline in the fight against any outbreak, and in the absence of specific vaccines they have to rely entirely on personal protective equipment and good clinical practice to prevent them from being exposed, and unfortunately sometimes this can be breached.

The risk to the wider community in France is low – we know that isolation of the patient and tracing and monitoring of their contacts is a proven and effective way of minimising onward spread.