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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has contacted three passengers who were sitting near the man, who remains in a critical condition, on a flight from Dubai but says it has no evidence the infection was passed on.

A MAN in critical condition with a potentially deadly viral disease has been transferred from a Glasgow hospital to a specialist unit in London.

The 38-year-old man was diagnosed with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) when he returned to Glasgow on Tuesday from Kabul, Afghanistan.

He travelled back to Scotland on a connecting flight from Dubai, Emirates flight EK027, which landed at Glasgow Airport at 12.35pm on Tuesday.

The man was treated in isolation at Gartnavel General Hospital's Brownlee Centre, which specialises in infectious disease.

This morning he was flown to London's Royal Free Hospital in isolation facilities with the support of the Scottish Ambulance Service and the RAF.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said it has contacted three passengers who were sitting near him on the flight from Dubai. It said it has no evidence that the infection was passed on but the three passengers will be monitored.

The risk to all other passengers on the flight from Dubai is "extremely low".

The man was on a flight from Dubai

Dr Syed Ahmed, the health board's consultant in public health who is co-ordinating investigations into the case, said: "The risk of person-to-person transmission of Crimean-Congo viral haemorrhagic fever is extremely low as it can only be transmitted by direct contact with infected blood or body fluids.

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Killer Congo virus man is moved from Glasgow to specialist London unit