Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey sparks fresh health scare as she's taken to hospital in Glasgow under police escort (photos)
Pauline
Cafferkey, a nurse who contracted the deadly Ebola virus while working in
Sierra Leone in December 2014 and faced a misconduct hearing over claims by a
health body that she hid symptoms of the killer virus on her return to the UK,
was today rushed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland with
police escorts after allegedly showing symptoms of the virus.
A spokeswoman for NHS
Greater Glasgow and Clyde said to Sun UK:
“Ms Cafferkey was admitted to the Queen
Elizabeth University Hospital under routine monitoring by the infectious
diseases team. She is undergoing further investigations and her condition
remains stable.”
First Minister Nicola
Sturgeon tweeted:
“Sending my very best wishes to Pauline
Cafferkey. She has already suffered way too much – & all for trying to help
others. Thoughts with her.”
This is the fourth time
Miss Cafferkey has become ill since contracting the deadly Ebola virus in
Sierra Leone after volunteering to help tackle the outbreak in 2014.
She jetted back to to
Scotland where she complained that she felt unwell and had a high temperature
and was in a critical condition at London’s Royal Free Hospital in isolation
for a month before she was discharged at the end of January last year.
She was admitted again
in October last year, where doctors discovered she had meningitis caused by the
Ebola disease before she was released after she was passed fit.
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