A woman who is suspected of having Ebola is being treated at Northampton General Hospital.
A spokesman for the hospital said: "I can confirm that we have a suspected case of Ebola. It is a female adult.
"She will be in isolation if she is suspected of having the illness."
The hospital did not reveal details about the identity of the woman or how she may have contracted the illness.
It comes after the London's Royal Free Hospital said
British nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted Ebola while in Sierra
Leone, was no longer critically ill.
She remains in an isolation unit and is showing signs of improvement.
The nurse, from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, had
volunteered with Save the Children at the Ebola Treatment Centre in
Kerry Town before eturning to the UK.
Save the Children has launched an investigation into how she was infected.
Northampton General Hospital's website states it has "plans
in place to dentify and manage possible cases of Ebola in the unlikely
event of a local outbreak".
These are in line with Department of Health and Public Health England guidelines.
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