Ebola patient to be discharged from hospital

The first Briton known to have caught the deadly Ebola virus in the current outbreak in West Africa is being discharged from hospital.

William Pooley, 29, a volunteer nurse, was flown back to the UK for treatment on August 24 after contracting the virus in Sierra Leone.

He was being cared for at a special unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London but the hospital announced he was being discharged today.

Mr Pooley, who comes from the small village of Eyke in Suffolk, was airlifted back to Britain in a specially equipped C17 RAF aircraft.