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Condition of hospitalized Ebola nurse in UK worsens

  LONDON (AP) — London’s Royal Free Hospital says the condition of a nurse being treated for complications resulting from Ebola has worsened. The hospital said in a statement Wednesday, October 14, that Pauline Cafferkey is now critically ill after her condition deteriorated. Cafferkey was treated for Ebola after returning from Sierra Leone last year.…

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FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 1, 2015 file photo, Pauline Cafferkey, a nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone, smiles in the Royal Free Hospital in London. London’s Royal Free Hospital says a nurse who recovered from Ebola last year is being treated for an unusual late complication of the infection. A military aircraft flew Pauline Cafferkey from her home in Scotland to London early Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. The hospital says she will now be treated "in the hospital's high-level isolation unit under nationally agreed guidelines." Medical authorities say the risk of Cafferkey transmitting the virus is low, but public health officials in Scotland are monitoring people with whom she had close contact. (Lisa Ferguson/Scotland on Sunday/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES
FILE – In this Saturday, Jan. 1, 2015 file photo, Pauline Cafferkey, a nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone, smiles in the Royal Free Hospital in London. London’s Royal Free Hospital says a nurse who recovered from Ebola last year is being treated for an unusual late complication of the infection. A military aircraft flew Pauline Cafferkey from her home in Scotland to London early Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. The hospital says she will now be treated “in the hospital’s high-level isolation unit under nationally agreed guidelines.” Medical authorities say the risk of Cafferkey transmitting the virus is low, but public health officials in Scotland are monitoring people with whom she had close contact. (Lisa Ferguson/Scotland on Sunday/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT – NO SALES – NO ARCHIVES

LONDON (AP) — London’s Royal Free Hospital says the condition of a nurse being treated for complications resulting from Ebola has worsened.

The hospital said in a statement Wednesday, October 14, that Pauline Cafferkey is now critically ill after her condition deteriorated.

Cafferkey was treated for Ebola after returning from Sierra Leone last year. She was released from the hospital’s high-level isolation unit in January but she suffered a relapse last week and was flown by military plane into London for treatment.

Experts say evidence is growing that even among those who survive Ebola, mental and physical health problems can last for years even after the virus is cleared from the bloodstream.

Thousands of Ebola survivors in West Africa are now suffering from long-term side effects of the often-deadly disease.

 

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