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| Scottish Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey 'critically ill' | Scottish Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey 'critically ill' |
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| Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who is being treated for complications from Ebola, is now "critically ill", doctors have said. | Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who is being treated for complications from Ebola, is now "critically ill", doctors have said. |
| Ms Cafferkey, 39, was readmitted to a specialist isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London last week. | Ms Cafferkey, 39, was readmitted to a specialist isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London last week. |
| The hospital said in a statement that her condition had deteriorated. | The hospital said in a statement that her condition had deteriorated. |
| Ms Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working at a treatment centre in Sierra Leone last year. | Ms Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working at a treatment centre in Sierra Leone last year. |
| She spent almost a month in isolation at the Royal Free at the beginning of the year after the virus was detected when she arrived back in the UK. | She spent almost a month in isolation at the Royal Free at the beginning of the year after the virus was detected when she arrived back in the UK. |
| She was later discharged after apparently making a full recovery, but it was discovered last week that Ebola was still present in her body. | |
| Bodily tissues can harbour the Ebola infection months after the person appears to have fully recovered. | |
| A statement released by the hospital on Tuesday said: "We are sad to announce that Pauline Cafferkey's condition has deteriorated and she is now critically ill. | A statement released by the hospital on Tuesday said: "We are sad to announce that Pauline Cafferkey's condition has deteriorated and she is now critically ill. |
| "She is being treated for Ebola in the high level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital." | "She is being treated for Ebola in the high level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital." |
| Analysis by Fergus Walsh, BBC medical correspondent | |
| "We are not being given any more details but earlier this week her family spoke out - they were very unhappy about how last week apparently she had been sent home after going to an out-of-hours GP. | |
| "And of course she's a nurse, and described the symptoms of meningitis. Now that would fit with one of the possible scenarios. | |
| "What has happened to her is that although she fought off successfully being critically ill once before, somehow the virus stayed lodged in parts of her body. | |
| "It could well be the spinal cord and if she does have meningitis, that would be inflammation of the spinal cord - and extremely difficult to treat. | |
| "She has fought this off once before. The same team will be hoping she can fight it off again." | |
| Ms Cafferkey had initially gone to an out of hours doctor in Glasgow on Monday of last week, but was sent home after being told she probably had a virus. | |
| Her family has claimed doctors "missed a big opportunity" to spot she had fallen ill again. | |
| She was admitted to the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital the following day after continuing to feel unwell, before being transferred to the Royal Free in a military aircraft on Friday morning. | |
| Ms Cafferkey had returned to work as a public health nurse at Blantyre Health Centre in South Lanarkshire. | |
| She had been well enough last Monday to visit Mossneuk Primary School in East Kilbride to thank children for their fund-raising efforts. | |
| And the previous week, she had received a Pride of Britain award in London, which also saw her meet the prime minister's wife, Samantha Cameron, at 10 Downing Street. | |
| The Ebola outbreak in west Africa has killed 11,312 of the 28,457 people infected since December 2013, according to the latest WHO figures. |