Friday, 9 October 2015

Ebola detected again in British nurse Pauline Cafferkey as she is flown to London isolation unit

Pauline Cafferkey, the nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone
A nurse diagnosed with Ebola in December last year has been flown to an isolation unit after falling ill.
Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was flown from Glasgow to London this morning, back to the Royal Free Hospital.
She spent almost a month in an isolation there earlier this year.

The nurse, from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, contracted the virus after helping victims in Sierra Leone.
It is understood that the virus has been found in Mrs Cafferkey, however it is from her original infection and she is not contagious.
It is said that the move in taking her to the hospital is "highly precautionary".
In a statement, the Royal Free said: "We can confirm that Pauline Cafferkey was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free London hospital in the early hours of this morning due to an unusual late complication of her previous infection by the Ebola virus.

"She will now be treated in isolation in the hospital's high-level isolation unit under nationally agreed guidelines.

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