Scottish Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey recovers from late complication
Pauline Cafferkey's condition is stable, hospital says
Medics at a specialist unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London, where Pauline Cafferkey was readmitted in October, said she was no longer infectious and had been discharged from there and admitted to a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Cafferkey, 39, contracted Ebola in December 2014 when she was working in a treatment facility in Sierra Leone at the height of an epidemic of the disease which swept through three countries in West Africa.
But in October she fell ill again and doctors found the virus was persisting in tissues in her brain. They later said she had developed meningitis cause by the Ebola virus — the first known such case.
Latest data from the World Health Organization on the West Africa Ebola outbreak show the virus has killed some 11,300 of the more than 28,500 people it has infected since December 2013.