Last year the Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed around 11,000 people, and also lead to isolated cases in America and Europe. Thankfully though the World Health Organisation have reported that the outbreak seems to have stalled and the fear mongering of it spreading around the world has obviously come to nothing.
Now however, Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola whilst working in Sierra Leone has been readmitted to an isolation unit in London, due to an “unusual late complication”. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has confirmed that the virus is present in Cafferkey, but it’s not though to be contagious. NHSGGC director of public health Dr Emilia Crighton played down concerns, saying: "Pauline's condition is a complication of a previous infection with the Ebola virus. The risk to the public is very low. In line with normal procedures in cases such as this, we have identified a small number of close contacts of Pauline's that we will be following up as a precaution."
Cafferkey previously spent a month in isolation after contracting ebola in December 2014, but had appeared to make a full recovery.
[via BBC News]
