LONDON (Reuters) - A British national living in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, the first Briton to fall victim to the deadly disease, the Department of Health said on Saturday.
Some 1,427 people have died among 2,615 cases documented in the world's worst outbreak of the highly contagious hemorrhagic fever that has spread across west Africa since first being identified in Guinea in March.
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