No HSE high alert despite North ebola scare

A suspected ebola case in Belfast will not put the Republic on heightened alert for the killer disease, the HSE has insisted.

With a patient being tested for exposure to the lethal virus in the North, health chiefs here say their contingency plans do not need changing.

The North’s Public Health Agency (PHA) said the patient, who is understood to have recently returned from west Africa, has already tested positive for malaria.