- Title: HEALTH-EBOLA/UK NURSE Cleared Ebola nurse now critical in London hospital
- Date: 15th October 2015
- Summary: FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE (FILE - DECEMBER 2014) (REUTERS) HEALTH WORKERS WHEELING PATIENT INTO TREATMENT CENTRE HEALTH WORKERS GESTURING TO AMBULANCE VARIOUS OF HEALTH WORKERS SPRAYING AMBULANCE WITH CHLORINE SOLUTION DISINFECTANT
- Embargoed: 30th October 2015 12:00
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- Location: Sierra Leone
- Country: Sierra Leone
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: A nurse who apparently recovered from Ebola is now critically ill after the virus re-emerged, the BBC reported on Wednesday (October 14).
Pauline Cafferkey is back at the The Royal Free hospital in London's specialist isolation unit where she was treated after contracting Ebola while working in Sierra Leone.
In January, she spoke about the ordeal of being diagnosed and falling critically ill with Ebola after working in the west African country.
Cafferkey, who had then been discharged from hospital after seemingly making a full recovery, was admitted to hospital after falling ill following her work with the charity Save the Children at a treatment centre outside the capital, Freetown.
She said at the time: "I was definitely frightened, but Ebola is so unpredictable, some patients can have so many symptoms and be so critical and yet others can have very mild forms. It's just so, you don't know what way it's going to go but obviously at the back of my mind I'd seen all what could happen and potentially could happen to me and did happen to me.
She said she had felt sympathy for the doctor who had to break the news after the initial diagnosis.
"I had a lovely doctor with me who had the horrible job of breaking news to me and she sat with me for a while. She did say to me 'how do you feel?' and I just said I've got a battle on my hand, which I did.".
The Royal Free, Britain's main centre for Ebola cases, also successfully treated British aid worker William Pooley who also contracted the virus in West Africa. - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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