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Ebola nurse to be treated with recovered patients' plasma | |
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Nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who is battling Ebola at a London hospital, is to be offered plasma from patients who have survived the virus. | |
The plasma comes from a European network of recovered patients. | |
The network includes British nurse William Pooley, Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies confirmed. | |
Mr Pooley recovered from Ebola in September after being treated at the Royal Free Hospital, where Ms Cafferkey is currently being cared for. | |
He was treated with the experimental drug ZMapp, but supplies of the medication have now run out. | |
Ms Cafferkey was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Glasgow from Sierra Leone, where she had travelled with a group of healthcare workers from Save the Children. | |
Screening 'chaotic' | |
She was said to be doing "as well as can be expected under the circumstances" earlier on Monday by Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. | |
Dame Sally said that Ms Cafferkey was in the early phase of the disease when she made the journey to the UK from Sierra Leone, and her fellow passengers were at "very low risk" of being infected. | |
Concerns about the Ebola screening process at Heathrow have been raised by Dr Martin Deahl, a consultant psychiatrist who travelled back on the same flight as Ms Cafferkey. | |
He described the screening as "chaotic", claiming there were too few staff on duty and the rooms where returning volunteers were held were too small. | |
Dame Sally said procedures for detecting the disease are being reviewed. | |
"We are looking into the process to make sure it is improved in terms of speed and effectiveness," she told journalists. |