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| Pauline Cafferkey, the nurse who was infected with the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone in 2014, has been taken to hospital in Glasgow under police escort. | |
| Police Scotland confirmed that they had provided an escort “as a matter of course” for the ambulance taking Cafferkey to Queen Elizabeth University hospital. | |
| A spokeswoman for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said: “Ms Cafferkey was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University hospital under routine monitoring by the infectious diseases team. She is undergoing further investigations and her condition remains stable.” | |
| Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, tweeted: | |
| Sending my very best wishes to Pauline Cafferkey. She has already suffered way too much - & all for trying to help others. Thoughts with her | |
| Cafferkey, 40, first became ill from the Ebola virus she contracted while volunteering in Sierra Leone on her return in late December 2014. She flew on from Heathrow to her home in Glasgow, where she was admitted to hospital with a fever later confirmed as Ebola infection. She was flown to London’s Royal Free hospital, which has a specialist isolation unit for Ebola patients. | |
| She nearly died, but when she was pronounced out of danger in January 2015, it was thought the virus had been cleared from her system. But that October, she became critically ill once again and was admitted again to the Royal Free. Her case astonished experts, as the first where the virus had lurked in her brain or spinal cord undetected and then attacked once more, causing meningitis, which nearly killed her. | She nearly died, but when she was pronounced out of danger in January 2015, it was thought the virus had been cleared from her system. But that October, she became critically ill once again and was admitted again to the Royal Free. Her case astonished experts, as the first where the virus had lurked in her brain or spinal cord undetected and then attacked once more, causing meningitis, which nearly killed her. |
| She has had long-term problems as a result of the second attack, including muscle weakness in a leg, which has meant she cannot run as she used to do. | She has had long-term problems as a result of the second attack, including muscle weakness in a leg, which has meant she cannot run as she used to do. |
| A third admission to the Royal Free turned out to be a false alarm, but the experts have no idea whether she could have Ebola virus still hiding and undetectable somewhere in her body because too little is known about the virus and the disease. | A third admission to the Royal Free turned out to be a false alarm, but the experts have no idea whether she could have Ebola virus still hiding and undetectable somewhere in her body because too little is known about the virus and the disease. |
| Just three weeks ago, Cafferkey was cleared by her regulatory body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, which had investigated allegations that she concealed the high temperature she was running at Heathrow on her return from Sierra Leone. | |
| The NMC, which could have struck her off the nursing register, said Cafferkey’s judgment had been compromised by her developing illness so that she could not be held responsible for putting the public in danger. Cafferkey said she reported her high temperature but was allowed to fly on to Glasgow. | The NMC, which could have struck her off the nursing register, said Cafferkey’s judgment had been compromised by her developing illness so that she could not be held responsible for putting the public in danger. Cafferkey said she reported her high temperature but was allowed to fly on to Glasgow. |
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