Pauline Cafferkey, a British nurse who contracted Ebola while working as a nurse in West Africa last year, has been rushed to an isolation unit in London after suffering an "unusual late complication" of the deadly disease on Friday. She is currently being treated at London's Royal Free Hospital, according to The Evening Standard.
Cafferkey was the first British person to be diagnosed with the disease after returning from Sierra Leone in December as a member of the Save the Children Treatment Center. She had to spend a month in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead before being declared free of the disease.
It is believed that she had contracted the virus due to her not wearing goggles to protect herself while working among the infected.
The 39-year-old nurse was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow on Tuesday due to her feeling unwell. After being treated by the infectious diseases unit in Glasgow, it was decided to have her flown in London by military plane to the Royal Free Hospital, reports ITV News.
Due to the incident, Scottish health authorities are observing the people that the nurse had been in close contact with.
The Ebola virus, though deadly, is known to be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are still symptomatic.
Thus, as of writing, the risk resulting from the incident remains fairly low.
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