‘No plans’ to stage ebola exercise

There are no immediate plans to stage a national ebola exercise here after the system was tested for the first time yesterday by a suspected case of the deadly virus.

The HSE ruled out ebola as the cause of illness in a Nigerian woman who was rushed by ambulance to the national isolation unit in the Mater Hospital with suspected symptoms of the disease early yesterday.

The patient was described from the outset as at “low risk” of having the virus, and tests later resulted in ebola being ruled out.