An Australian nurse has been airlifted to the UK after an incident while treating Ebola patients in west Africa.
Foreign affairs officials said the nurse had not been diagnosed with Ebola, but was transferred from Sierra Leone as a precautionary measure.
The nurse was working at a treatment centre funded by the Australian government.
The government announced in November it would provide $20m for a private company, Aspen Medical, to run the UK-built medical centre in Sierra Leone – one of the countries worst affected by the Ebola outbreak.
The 100-bed facility is at Hastings Airfield, close to the capital Freetown.
In late November, 17 health workers left Australia to make their way to the treatment centre.
Australia sent a second group of workers when the centre opened in mid-December.
At the time the government said the clinic had begun operation with five beds “in line with best practice” and would gradually scale up to full capacity of 100 beds.
It would operate “under strict guidelines to ensure infection control procedures are working effectively and trained staff and safety practices are in place”.