"All of the information we have suggests this is a very low probability case. There is no expectation that we are looking at another Ebola case," Sturgeon said Tuesday at a press conference in Glasgow. "The patient will be transferred to Aberdeen later today and tests [were] carried out which we will have the results from later today," Sturgeon added.
An NHS nurse, Pauline Cafferkey, who had been working with the Save the Children charity in Sierra Leone, tested positive for the Ebola virus after returning from West Africa to her home in Glasgow.
Cafferkey has now been transferred to a specialist treatment facility at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Asked what monitoring was in place for returning health workers coming back from West Africa, Sturgeon told reporters, "There is a scheme in place through Public Health England which Scotland participates in, which means that workers going out to West Africa register with that scheme and on their return health boards are notified, and they are given appropriate advice."
"That monitoring scheme is in place and we encourage workers to register with the scheme," Sturgeon added.
Speaking at the same press conference, Syed Ahmed, a clinical director in charge of the Public Health Protection Unit at NHS Glasgow, said, "We have a very robust monitoring system in place."
The current outbreak of the Ebola virus started in Guinea in December 2013, reaching Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal in the first few months of 2014. Some Ebola cases have been reported outside of West Africa, including in the United States.
According to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, as many as 7,842 people have died from the virus so far.
