Concerned MPs have written to the Government demanding details of its plans to protect Britain against the deadly Ebola outbreak - a day after it was feared the virus had arrived in the UK.
The Health and Social Care Committee (HSCC), a cross-party group of 11 MPs, has asked chief medical officer, Sir Chris Whitty, and public health minister Sharon Hodgson MP to explain 'how prepared the Government is for a future outbreak'.
They are also requesting to know 'what steps are being taken to reduce the risk to the public from this high-consequence infectious disease', including measures at borders and the deployment of surveillance and testing.
The letter, sent to Sir Whitty and Ms Hodgson this morning, comes just over 24 hours after a suspected Ebola case prompted the precautionary shutdown of part of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow before the patient tested negative.
Europe's only confirmed Ebola case is currently in France, where a doctor tested positive last week after returning from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - the epicentre of the current outbreak.
