The potentially viral patient recently returned from Africa to the UK. . . and presented overnight with symptoms that do not definitively exclude… ebolavirus, of one sort or another.

Tests have already been run today, and the UK authorities are awaiting definitive answers. But s/he will need to consistently test negative for 21 more days (as was previously the outcome in a similar suspected case in Tel Aviv, Israel), before all is clear. And in the mean time, wisely — the health authorities have closed off the involved hospital.

This is all taking place about an hour and a half’s drive (north and east), from the center of London. Here’s the latest:

…Health officials are investigating a potential Ebola case in Colchester, after a patient with suspected symptoms returned to Britain from Africa, where a strain of the deadly virus is circulating in Uganda.

On Wednesday, part of Colchester Hospital in Essex was closed to new patients amid concerns that a patient with a travel history to Africa was developing early symptoms of Ebola, a deadly hemorrhagic fever.

The Telegraph understands that officials at the UK Health Security Agency are testing the patient for a range of diseases as part of routine infection control protocol that kicks in when suspected cases emerge in travellers….

Those vaccine candidates cannot get tested rapidly enough, in my estimation. Now you know — holding a good thought, tonight here.

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