Ebola: Scotland
(asked on 5th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, where testing of samples from patients in Scotland suspected of having Ebola takes place.
This question was answered on 8th January 2015
Since 1 December 2014, Ebola testing facilities are being provided through NHS Lothian by the Scottish National Viral Haemorrhagic Fever Test Service, based at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Prior to December, all samples were sent to the Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory testing facility at Porton Down in Wiltshire.