Fear is spreading after deadly Ebola virus is contracted in Madrid, Spain, in the first case outside West Africa but the risk of the disease reaching Britain is very small, says University of Manchester expert

Senior health officials are reassuring those in Manchester and the rest of the UK that the risk of Ebola spreading across the country is ‘very low’.

MM has compiled the facts on what we know about the deadly Ebola virus

An aid worker based in Africa accused parents at a Stockport Catholic primary school of treating her nine-year-old son ‘like a leper’ today after he was banned from joining classes over unfounded fears he had Ebola.