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Fri, 2015-10-09 10:37 — Kathy Gilbeaux

            

Pauline Cafferkey previously spent a month in the specialist isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London

bbc.com - October 9, 2015

A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone last year is in a "serious condition" after being readmitted to an isolation unit in London.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde confirmed that the virus is still present in Pauline Cafferkey's body after being left over from the original infection.

She is not thought to be contagious.

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Sat, 2015-10-10 09:58 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Ebola's persistence in survivors fuels concerns

. . . concerned that Ebola's persistence in survivors, who have no obvious symptoms of Ebola infection and so are often living and working normally and not kept in isolation as a symptomatic patient would be, means they are "a potential reservoir of the virus".
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-survivors-1.3264343 

Pauline Cafferkey, Ebola nurse, back in hospital: Virus can live on in tissue for months after recovery, experts say

In line with normal procedures in cases such as this, we have identified a small number of close contacts of Pauline’s that we will be following up as a precaution.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pauline-cafferkey-ebola-nurse-back-in-hospital-virus-can-live-on-in-tissue-for-months-after-recovery-a6687571.html

Pauline Cafferkey case shows we still know little of Ebola's long-term effects

Last week the Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey was in celebratory mood as she met the prime minister’s wife, Samantha Cameron. She flew down to London after being selected for a Pride of Britain award by the Daily Mirror and joined other winners and families for a reception at No 10 Downing Street.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/09/pauline-cafferkey-case-know-little-ebola-virus-long-term-effects

Scottish Nurse Who Recovered From Ebola Is Back In Isolation
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/10/09/447211121/scottish-nurse-who-recovered-from-ebola-is-back-in-isolation

Sun, 2015-10-11 16:01 — Kathy Gilbeaux

bbc.com - October 11, 2015

. . . Toni Cafferkey told the Sunday Mail that her sister had gone to a GP out-of-hours clinic at the Victoria Hospital in Glasgow on Monday night but the doctor who assessed her diagnosed a virus and sent her home. . . .

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34499608

Mon, 2015-10-12 23:52 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Vaccine offered to some in the group while all face twice-daily temperature checks and travel restrictions after nurse developed an Ebola-related illness

theguardian.com - by Libby Brooks - October 12, 2015

Health officials have imposed twice-daily temperature checks and travel restrictions on 58 people who had close contact with Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola in December and fell ill again last week with complications related to the disease.

Of the 58, 40 were confirmed as having had direct contact with the nurse’s bodily fluids and were offered an Ebola vaccine in line with criteria set out by an expert advisory group that includes Health Protection Scotland, Public Health England and the Scottish government. Of those 40, 25 have accepted the vaccine and a further 15 have either declined it or were unable to receive it due to existing medical conditions.

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Dozens of friends and family of nurse Pauline Cafferkey have been given the Ebola vaccine and are now being monitored by health chiefs after she was admitted back into isolation unit

dailymail.co.uk - By EMMA GLANFIELD and SAM MATTHEW - October 12, 2015

. . . Downing Street is also believed to have been told Mrs Cameron will not require testing, although one expert said she may be asked to fill out a questionnaire about any symptoms and will be advised to raise concerns if she feels ill.

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Wed, 2015-10-14 17:00 — mike kraft

THE GUARDIAN  by Sarah Bosley  Oct. 14, 2015

Pauline Cafferkey, the nurse who suffered complications from the Ebola infection she contracted while volunteering in west Africa, is now critically ill, the Royal Free hospital in London has said.

The announcement shocked medical experts. While it is recognised that the virus can linger in parts of the body after a patient has recovered, it has never before been known to trigger potentially lethal disease months after the initial illness.

Jonathan Ball, professor of molecular virology at the University of Nottingham, said it was “frankly staggering”. He said: “I am not aware from the scientific literature of a case where Ebola has been associated with what we can only assume as life-threatening complications after someone has initially recovered, and certainly not so many months after.”

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/14/ebola-nurse-pauline-cafferkey-critically-ill

Sat, 2015-10-17 16:32 — Kathy Gilbeaux

theguardian.com - by Sarah Boseley - October 16, 2015

Doctors and scientists are amazed and appalled at the Scottish nurse’s relapse, which has worrying implications for the thousands of survivors in west Africa.

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Thu, 2015-10-22 09:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

nytimes.com - by Sheri Fink - October 21, 2015

A Scottish nurse who survived Ebola only to fall critically ill some nine months later with meningitis is beginning to recover, doctors said Wednesday. . . .

. . . Equally important, experts say, is what Ms. Cafferkey’s infection is telling them about virus, and the implications for other survivors in West Africa.

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Tue, 2016-02-23 08:48 — Kathy Gilbeaux

British woman returns for treatment for third time since contracting virus in Sierra Leone just over a year ago

theguardian.com - by Haroon Siddique - February 23, 2016

Pauline Cafferkey, the British nurse who contracted Ebola in west Africa, is in a “stable condition” after being admitted to hospital for the third time since her return.

Cafferkey, 39, was infected while working with victims of the virus in Sierra Leone in December 2014. She spent almost a month in an isolation unit at the Royal Free hospital in north London, where she was treated with a survivor’s plasma and an experimental antiviral drug.

She fell ill again in October last year and was readmitted to the same hospital with meningitis caused by the lingering virus. After coming close to dying she was discharged in November and transferred to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University hospital to continue her recovery before returning home.

On Tuesday, it emerged that Cafferkey, from South Lanarkshire, was being treated again at the Glasgow hospital.

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BBC - Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey admitted to hospital
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-35639748

 

 

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