A healthcare worker who recently returned from West Africa has been taken to a hospital after displaying symptoms which could be the deadly Ebola virus. The unnamed woman has been placed in an isolation ward at Canberra Hospital for treatment on Friday with doctors and nurses wearing full protective clothing. The woman did not treat any cases of the deadly virus where she worked at an Ebola treatment clinic in Liberia before she arrived in Australia on April 5. The woman is being treated in complete isolation with doctors and nurses wearing full protective clothing . Health officials say it's most unlikely she has Ebola and her symptoms - a fever and stomach upset - are consistent with many other conditions. She's being treated in complete isolation in a single room under the hospital's Ebola protocol. Chief medical administrator for ACT Health professor Frank Bowden said this was a precautionary measure with strict protocols to protect the patient, staff and the community. 'We believe that this patient has an extremely low risk of having Ebola,' he told reporters. The woman developed symptoms which could be the deadly Ebola disease after returning from West Africa . The unnamed health worker is in isolation at Canberra Hospital where she is being treated for Ebola . Professor Bowden said it would be 72 hours before her diagnosis was definitely known. He said the community should not be alarmed. 'We are taking every precaution,' he said. 'Here where the patient has an extremely low risk of Ebola, we know there is no risk to the public of Ebola.' Dr Andrew Pengilley, acting ACT chief health officer, said this could be a normal stomach bug, malaria or a viral illness which affected people in West Africa as they did in Australia. 'Ebola is not a particularly transmissible infection under normal circumstances. It's transmitted by direct contact with bodily fluids so we are confident there is no risk to the wider community,' he said.
An ill female health worker is being treated for Ebola on Friday.
She's been admitted to Canberra Hospital after returning from West Africa.
The unnamed woman was working at an Ebola treatment clinic in Liberia.
It's understood the woman did not treat any cases of Ebola overseas.
She's being treated in isolation under the hospital's Ebola protocol.
The results of the Ebola test are expected to be known within 72 hours.