Pauline Cafferkey. A British Nurse in Ebola isolation ward

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British Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted Ebola whilst working in West Africa last year, has been flown from Glasgow to an isolation ward at London's Royal Free Hospital, according to the Department of Health. A statement from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said Ms Cafferkey was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow on Tuesday after feeling unwell.
She was treated by the infectious diseases unit in Glasgow before being transferred to London by military plane in the early hours of Friday morning. A statement from the Royal Free said: We can confirm that Pauline Cafferkey was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free London hospital in the early hours of this morning due to an unusual late complication of her previous infection by the Ebola virus. She will now be treated in isolation in the hospital's high-level isolation unit 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. Greater Glasgow Health Board said the virus is present in Ms Cafferkey but said it was left over from the original infection. It is not thought to be contagious. The 39-year-old nurse has been flown back to an isolation unit at the Royal Free. Professor Paul Cosford, medical director at Public Health England, said: "She was transported in a military aircraft under the supervision of experts.
"The Scottish health authorities will be following up on a small number of close contacts of Pauline's as a precaution." Pauline Cafferkey, from Glasgow, was the first person to be diagnosed with the disease in the UK after she flew home on 28th December last year. She had been working at a Save the Children treatment centre in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone. A report from the Charity in February said she was likely infected as a result of using a visor to protect her face rather than goggles. She spent a month at the Royal Free at the start of 2015 before being declared free from the virus. Speaking last month on Lorraine Kelly's ITV chat show, Ms Cafferkey said she had no regrets about her trip to Sierra Leone and would considering going back to help again. She told the programme that when she found out she had contracted Ebola she "just tried to be stoical about everything but inside, obviously, I was very frightened. "I knew it could have gone three ways - it could have been mild, it could have been severe which it was with me, and it could have been death - the other outcome which I came very close to." Source: ITV Report

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