Fife hospital staff are being trained in how to deal with patients with suspected ebola.
Although local health chiefs believe the risk of an ebola case presenting in Fife is very low, staff are being trained to take precautions.
Symptoms such as high fever, severe headache and diarrhoea, are similar to that of malaria and workers have been urged to use similar techniques until ebola is ruled out.
NHS Fife’s director of nursing, Scott McLean, said detailed plans and action cards had been put in place for reception and management of patients with suspected ebola into Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy.
Former Crossgates woman Pauline Cafferkey is now said to be in a critical condition in hospital after contracting the disease while working for Save the Children in Sierra Leone.
