Ebola nurse now suffering from meningitis, not virus relapse

Infectious diseases consultant at the Royal Free Hospital Dr Michael Jacobs said Ms Cafferkey became unwell with meningitis caused by Ebola.

A doctor says the Ebola has caused the meningitis.

Earlier this week, doctors said her condition had improved and she was “serious but stable”.

Medics also said Ms Cafferkey, who has started eating again, has “a long recovery ahead” over her. However, they are “very hopeful” that she will make a “full recovery”. The nurse is now being “treated for Ebola in the high-level isolation unit”, according to the hospital’s statement last week.

Dr. Jacobs further states that Cafferkey is still in an isolation unit in the hospital, though she is now able to talk to hospital staff and use an iPad without much difficulty.

Nurse Pauline Cafferkey was admitted to a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, on October 6 due to what United Kingdom health officials called “an unusual late complication” of her Ebola infection. She was diagnosed with Ebola shortly after returning to the UK.

The council said the disease “cannot be spread through ordinary social contact”.

The company confirmed that it has fulfilled a request for compassionate access to GS-5734, a novel nucleotide analogue in development for the potential treatment of Ebola, discovered as part of its programme to screen compounds in its libraries for activity against a range of potential emerging viruses. Today, the news from RFH is that Cafferkey has contracted Meningitis from the Ebola virus that had remained in her brain.

The following day, she was admitted to the infectious diseases unit of Gartnavel General hospital in Glasgow and was transferred by RAF aircraft to the Royal Free on 30 December.

– Doctors “thrilled” with Pauline Cafferkey’s progress after being at imminent risk of dying.

“We were extremely concerned about Pauline’s condition”.

A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa is recovering well after the virus caused her to develop meningitis.

A report from the charity in February said she was probably infected as a result of using a visor to protect her face rather than goggles.

“This new research shows that Ebola virus can persist in the semen and be transmitted sexually many months after the original infection has disappeared”. In one case, macaques infected with Ebola began to recover, but two to three weeks after infection, “they’d start to deteriorate”, said Mr Thomas W Geisbert, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.