Scottish Ebola nurse now ‘critically ill’

She was airlifted to the Royal Free in the early hours of Friday morning where she remains in a “serious condition”, according to a hospital spokesman.

HEALTHCARE officials have confirmed that 25 people have been vaccinated after coming into close contact with Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey.

She had spent a month in the Royal Free’s unit in December 2014 after contracting ebola while volunteering in Sierra Leone.

Cafferkey, 39, was admitted to hospital in Glasgow last week after feeling unwell and was flown to London’s Royal Free Hospital, where she is being treated in Britain’s only isolation ward for the lethal disease.

Ms Cafferkey, who is from South Lanarkshire, was diagnosed with Ebola in December after returning to Glasgow from Sierra Leone via London. They have not released further details of her illness.

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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said 40 people were confirmed as having had direct contact with Ms Cafferkey’s bodily fluids. Her management and the clinical decisions taken based on the symptoms she was displaying at the time were entirely appropriate.

“All appropriate infection control procedures were carried out as part of this episode of care”.

Pauline Cafferkey, a Scottish nurse being treated for complications from Ebola, is now “critically ill” after her condition deteriorated, hospital staff have said.

A total of 58 close contacts have been confirmed, believed to be a mixture of healthcare workers and Ms Cafferkey’s friends, family and community contacts, and an expert group managing Ms Cafferkey’s case agreed that anybody who has had direct contact with any bodily fluids would be offered vaccination as a precautionary measure.