Pauline Cafferkey, a Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola last year, has been re-admitted to hospital. Ms Cafferkey has been flown down from Glasgow to an isolation unit in London’s Royal Free Hospital after falling ill again.
Greater Glasgow health board has confirmed that the virus is present in the 39-year-old nurse, but said it was left over from the original infection. They added that it’s not believed to be contagious.
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. Source; Metro UK
‘She will now be treated in isolation in the hospital’s high-level isolation unit under nationally agreed guidelines. Source; Metro UK
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