Scottish 'Ebola nurse' Pauline Cafferkey critically ill

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'Ebola nurse' Pauline Cafferkey critically ill

LONDON: -- A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola but apparently made a full recovery is critically ill with complications from the deadly virus.

Pauline Cafferkey was readmitted to an isolation unit at London’s Royal Free Hospital last week.

Medical personnel confirmed the virus is still present in her body, but it is not believed to be contagious. Doctors said the 39-year-old was being treated for an “unusual late complication” of the infection.

Cafferkey had been working with Ebola patients in Sierra Leone last year and was diagnosed in Scotland after returning from West Africa.

She was given blood plasma from a survivor and an experimental anti-viral drug by the Royal Free Hospital and later given the all-clear.

People who have recently come into contact with the nurse are being monitored by health authorities as a precaution.


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[Inepto Cracy]

Very unfortunate surname, in the African context. Could be a derogetory name or a diminutive name thereof.

Hope she gets better, but why go to an epidemic deadly virus area in the first place?

Bravado to show how good the human caring spirit lives on? Very selfish as it places other people and health and medical persons lives in danger. too.

[oncearugge]

Very unfortunate surname, in the African context. Could be a derogetory name or a diminutive name thereof.

Hope she gets better, but why go to an epidemic deadly virus area in the first place?

Bravado to show how good the human caring spirit lives on? Very selfish as it places other people and health and medical persons lives in danger. too.

COWARDLY CYNICS, should keep quite.

Were it not for the bravery, dedication and skill of Médecins Sans Frontières and other volunteers Ebola could be knocking on the door of the cynics.

Very selfish to stay at home and let others take the risk !

edit=spelling adjustment!

Edited October 15, 2015 by oncearugge

[Boon Mee]

Is this the gal who after returning from West Africa went bicycleling around town and refused to sequester her self?

[oncearugge]

Is this the gal who after returning from West Africa went bicycleling around town and refused to sequester her self?

No. And there was no need for the Nurse ( not a "gal") who did go for a bike ride to "sequester" herself.

If I remember correctly the "bike" Nurse successfully challenged an ignorant American "mayor" in his attempts to "jail" her.

http://www.adn.com/article/20141031/maine-judge-rejects-ebola-quarantine-nurse-kaci-hickox

[Soutpeel]

Very unfortunate surname, in the African context. Could be a derogetory name or a diminutive name thereof.

Hope she gets better, but why go to an epidemic deadly virus area in the first place?

Bravado to show how good the human caring spirit lives on? Very selfish as it places other people and health and medical persons lives in danger. too.

Only to the blind/uneducated...the surname is Irish anglicised from the Gaelic form....the term your are trying to refer to to comes from Arabic....and guess what ?

Caffreys beer is availible in Africa as well

[Inepto Cracy]

Soutpiel. The name of the nurse is Cafferkey, not Caffrey. You have forgotten to comprehend what you read.

Say no more.

[Soutpeel]

Soutpiel. The name of the nurse is Cafferkey, not Caffrey. You have forgotten to comprehend what you read.

Say no more.

I know exactly what you tried to get at and failed badly given that term would only apply to one part of Africa where there wasnt Ebola anyway and she was in west Africa and i dont believe Afrikaans was ever spoken in that part of Africa Edited October 15, 2015 by Soutpeel

[Chicog]

I would think everyone who was infected and given the all clear must be quite sleepless at this news.

[oncearugge]

I would think everyone who was infected and given the all clear must be quite sleepless at this news.

Would you tell us about all the "infected" Western volunteers who assisted in bringing the epidemic to a close?

Those very few will be aware and being intelligent , professional people I expect that they sleep well in knowing the "risk" they now have is infinitesimally small.