British Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey readmitted to hospital
A British nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone a year ago has been rushed to an isolation unit in London after suffering an “unusual late complication” of the infection.
They added that it’s not believed to be contagious.
Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was in fact shifted beginning with the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free Hospital in London too soon Friday sunrise attributed to “a odd delayed predicament” of their prior illness through Ebola common virus, the Royal Free said within the testimony.
Her transfer to the London hospital has been described by government sources as a “highly precautionary procedure”.
Pauline Cafferkey was the first person to be diagnosed in the United Kingdom with Ebola after returning from Sierra Leone in December.
She was initially admitted to the city’s Gartnavel Hospital on December 29, then transferred to the Royal Free Hospital the following day.
“The risk to the public is very low”, the hospital said in a statement.
Ms Cafferkey, who is from South Lanarkshire, won an award at the the Pride of Britain Awards in central London on September 28. She was discharged in January after seemingly making a full recovery.
She was cleared to travel but later became seriously ill.
More than 11,000 people have died in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
He said Ms Cafferkey was treated with blood plasma from an Ebola survivor and an experimental treatment drug closely related drug to ZMapp, which United Kingdom nurse Will Pooley was treated with after he contracted Ebola.