The patient returned from Sierra Leone yesterday and is now receiving treatment at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital.
The worker returned to Scotland via Casablanca and London Heathrow, and arrived into Glasgow Airport on a British Airways flight at around 11.30pm, according to Sky News.
Sources told BBC News the aid worker was a female.
The diagnoses comes after British nurse William Pooley, 29, contracted the virus earlier this while volunteering in Sierra Leone. He has since returned to the West African nation to continue his work.
The symptoms of the deadly virus include a fever, headaches, joint and muscle pain, a sore throat and intense muscle weakness, according to the NHS. Patients typically develop these symptoms after five to seven days, but can appear between two and 21 days of a person becoming infected.
After these symptoms develop people experience diarrhoea, vomiting, a rash, and stomach pain before liver and kidney functions deteriorate.
Ebola then causes internal bleeding and patients can bleed from their ears, eyes, nose or mouth.
However, while Ebola is contagious, it is only spread through contact with the blood and body fluids of an infected person, such as urine, vomit, diarrhoea and faeces, and saliva.
The World Health Organisation makes it clear that patients do not become contagious until they are displaying symptoms of Ebola, and they are not contagious during the incubation period.
The infection can be transmitted when these infected fluids come into direct contact with another person’s broken skin, or with mucus membranes, which are found in the lining of the nose and mouth.
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