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Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey hospitalised for the Third time

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey hospitalised for the Third time

Pauline Cafferkey, who voluntarily went to Sierra Leone to treat Ebola patients, was initially admitted to a hospital in Glasgow and later transferred to the Royal Free Hospital

British nurse Pauline Cafferkey has been transported by an RAF Hercules to London having been admitted to hospital for a third time since contracting Ebola. Ms Cafferkey, 39, was rushed to Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital due to a late complication from her previous infection. The health worker has been taken from there to the Royal Free Hospital in London. 

The hospital has the UK's only high-level isolation unit used for treating infectious diseases and it will her third time there. The Scottish nurse was originally infected while working in Save the Children's treatment facility in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone in December 2014. Bodily tissues can harbour the Ebola infection months after the person appears to have fully recovered. See more photos below...

She was flown from Glasgow to the Royal Free Hospital in London in an isolation bed on an RAF Hercules military  plane

Bodily tissues can harbour the Ebola infection months after the person appears to have fully recovered - Dr Derek Gardner, a lecturer in Biomedical and Life Sciences, said it was 'becoming clear that Ebola is a far more complex disease than we previously imagined'

Ms Cafferkey was taken by RAF Hercules (pictured) at Glasgow Airport to London for treatment at the Royal Free Hospital, in London 

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