Nurse who contracted Ebola hospitalized

Pauline Cafferkey, a nurse from the United Kingdom, previously declared free from an Ebola infection she contracted in Sierra Leone, is back in the hospital, suffering from what doctors are calling “an unusual late complication”.

Dr Emilia Crighton, NHSGGC director of public health, said: “Pauline’s condition is a complication of a previous infection with the Ebola virus.The risk to the public is very low”.

Still, he said, Cafferkey’s case appeared unusual, noting the stubborn persistence of Ebola virus in her body.

Pauline Cafferkey was flown from a Glasgow hospital to London’s Royal Free Hospital due to “rare late complications with the virus”.

Toni Cafferkey told the Sunday Mail that her sister had gone to a GP out-of-hours clinic at the Victoria Hospital in Glasgow on Monday night but the doctor who assessed her diagnosed a virus and sent her home.

Ms Cafferkey was admitted to hospital the following day, before being transferred to London to be treated in an isolation unit. After taking a heart-stopping turn for the worse, she eventually recovered and was released from hospital at the end of January.

“In best poss place under care of Dr Mike Jacobs at Royal Free”.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha who hosted a function with Cafferkey nine days ago.

“By the end of the year, I could sense hand motions only but otherwise had absolutely no vision in the eye”, said Ian Crozier, an Ebola survivor.

Ebola has been shown to persist for weeks or even months in parts of the body and in bodily fluids.

“The odds are that she has actually inherited a lucky set of genes and these are probably what protected her the first time and probably what will keep her safe the second time regardless of any treatment”.

It is believed that she had contracted the virus due to her not wearing goggles to protect herself while working among the infected.

As per the hospital she is in a “serious condition” in the special unit. Pauline Cafferkey volunteered with Save the Children in Sierra Leone during the height of the most serious Ebola epidemic to date.

On Wednesday, the three countries worst affected by Ebola – Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia recorded their first week with no new cases since the outbreak began in March 2014.

The World Health Organisation admits it does not know much about the long-term effects of having Ebola, which is passed on through bodily fluids.