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The British nurse Pauline Cafferkey has been admitted to hospital for the third time since contracting Ebola, NHS officials have said. Pauline Cafferkey, the British nurse who contracted Ebola in west Africa, has been admitted to hospital for the third time since her return.
Cafferkey, 39, was infected while working in Sierra Leone in December 2014 and spent almost a month in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Cafferkey, 39, was infected while working with victims of the virus in Sierra Leone in December 2014. She spent almost a month in an isolation unit at the Royal Free hospital in north London, where she was treated with a survivor’s plasma and an experimental antiviral drug.
She fell ill again in October last year and was readmitted to the same hospital with meningitis caused by the lingering virus. After coming close to dying she was discharged in November and transferred to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University hospital to continue her recovery before returning home.
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She was released after making a recovery but fell ill again in October last year and was again treated at the Royal Free for meningitis caused by Ebola. On Tuesday, it emerged that Cafferkey, from South Lanarkshire, was being treated again at the Glasgow hospital.
At one point Cafferkey, from South Lanarkshire, was described as being critically ill, but was discharged in November and transferred to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth university hospital to continue her recovery, and later returned home.
She is now being treated at the Glasgow hospital.
An NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde spokesman said: “Under routine monitoring by the infectious diseases unit, Pauline Cafferkey has been admitted to hospital for further investigations.”An NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde spokesman said: “Under routine monitoring by the infectious diseases unit, Pauline Cafferkey has been admitted to hospital for further investigations.”
More details soon … He stressed that, in the interests of patient confidentiality, there would not be regular updates on her condition.
The re-surfacing of the Ebola virus in Cafferkey’s brain causing meningitis in October was described as unprecedented.
Jonathan Ball, a professor of molecular virology at the University of Nottingham, said it was the first case he was aware of where Ebola had been associated with life-threatening complications so many months after an initial recovery.
Her latest hospital admission could mean people with whom Cafferkey has been in hospital may be offered vaccination against the Ebola virus, as happened after her previous stay.
There is no no approved vaccine or treatment for Ebola but last month the Gavi alliance for vaccines and immunisation signed a $5m (£3.5m) deal to buy a vaccine being developed by Merck to protect against the virus. Initial results from a clinical trial in Guinea, which tested the vaccine on 4,000 people who had been in close contact with a confirmed Ebola case, showed complete protection after 10 days.
Last month, the World Health Organisation declared that west Africa was free of the virus after a two-year epidemic that killed more than 11,300 people. But the announcement coincided with the death of a woman from the disease in Sierra Leone, who was feared to have exposed others to the virus.