23 February 2016•Update: 04 April 2016
LONDON
A British nurse has been admitted to hospital for a third time after twice being treated for symptoms connected to Ebola.
Pauline Cafferkey, who originally contracted the infection while working at an Ebola treatment facility in Sierra Leone in 2014, was admitted to hospital in her native Scotland Tuesday.
The hospital said in a statement: “Under routine monitoring by the Infectious Diseases Unit Pauline Cafferkey has been admitted to hospital for further investigations.
“To protect patient confidentiality, we will not be publishing regular updates on this patient’s condition.”
Cafferkey was first hospitalized upon her return to the U.K. in December 2014, and was discharged after being treated for a month.
But she became critically ill again the following October and was readmitted to a hospital isolation ward, where she spent many weeks in treatment before being discharged.
Scientists agree Ebola can remain undetected in body tissue for months after a person appears to have recovered fully.
More than 11,300 people have died from the Ebola epidemic that swept West Africa in 2014. The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak is over in all countries in the region apart from Sierra Leone, which reported its most recent case last month.
