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RAF Evacuates Aid Worker From Sierra Leone

A second British aid worker has been evacuated from Sierra Leone in the RAF's Air Transport Isolator.
 
The female NHS worker was flown out of Lungi International Airport near Freetown, after being splashed in the eye while taking off her protective equipment with what was thought to be bodily fluids
 
She had been working in a in a military-built treatment centre in a remote part of the Ebola-hit country.
 
Charlotte Cross reports from Sierra Leone.

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