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Posted: 24th February 2016
Admitted for the third time due to ‘late complication’
Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferky has been admitted to hospital for a third time due to a ‘late complication’ resulting from her previous infection by the Ebola virus.
She is now being treated at Royal Free Hospital in London by the infectious diseases team. The latest reports describe her condition as ‘stable’.
Ms Cafferkey was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow on Tuesday (23 February) for ‘further investigations’. She was later transferred to the Royal Free Hospital by helicopter.
The nurse was treated at the hospital twice in 2015, after contracting Ebola in Sierra Leone the previous year.
A spokesperson for the Royal Free Hospital said: “We can confirm that Pauline Cafferkey is being transferred to the Royal Free Hospital due to a late complication from her previous infection by the Ebola virus. She will now be treated by the hospital's infectious diseases team under nationally agreed guidelines.
“The Ebola virus can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are symptomatic so the risk to the general public remains low and the NHS has well established and practised infection control procedures in place.”
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