SCOTTISH EBOLA NURSE READMITTED TO HOSPITAL WITH EBOLA COMPLICATIONS
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Scottish Ebola nurse readmitted to hospital after infection complication
Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted virus in west Africa last year, transferred to Royal Free hospital in London after feeling unwell
Lisa O’Carroll and Nadia Khomami
Friday 9 October 2015 08.47 BST
Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in west Africa last year, has been flown to the Royal Free hospital in London for treatment of an unusual late complication of the infection.
The 39-year-old was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow on Tuesday after feeling unwell. During her time there she was treated in the infectious diseases unit.
Cafferkey was transported from Glasgow in the early hours of Friday morning in a military aircraft under supervision.
Dr Emilia Crighton, the NHSGGC director of public health, said: “Pauline’s condition is a complication of a previous infection with the Ebola virus. The risk to the public is very low. 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.”
Cafferkey worked in Sierra Leone at the end of last year, and was diagnosed with the virus on her return to the UK in December. She recovered following treatment in isolation at the Royal Free, the UK’s specialist treatment centre for Ebola.
The Greater Glasgow health board said the virus was present in Cafferkey but that it was left over from the original infection. A government source said the transfer to the specialist unit was a “highly precautionary process”.
In a statement, the Royal Free said: “We can confirm that Pauline Cafferkey was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free London hospital in the early hours of this morning due to an unusual late complication of her previous infection by the Ebola virus.
“She will now be treated in isolation in the hospital’s high-level isolation unit under nationally agreed guidelines.
“The Ebola virus can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are symptomatic so the risk to the general public remains low and the NHS has well-established and practised infection control procedures in place.”
Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working in a Save the Children treatment centre in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone. The nurse arrived at Heathrow on 28 December and complained that she was developing a fever. Her temperature was found to be in the normal range and she was allowed to fly on to Glasgow.
Once home, her condition worsened and she was flown to the Royal Free, where she spent three weeks in a critical condition before recovering.
She contracted the disease while using a visor rather than goggles to treat patients at the facility, an internal investigation by Save the Children found.
“She was not able to use the standard protective goggles used there because she could not get them to fit properly,” the report said. “She acquired a visor that was the same as the one which she had used in her initial training but that was not used by Save the Children.
“Both visors and goggles are equally safe but there are slight differences in the types of clothing worn with each, and in the protocols for putting the equipment on and taking it off.”
The report added: “Although the procedures, equipment and protocols used at the ETC [Ebola treatment centre] are considered safe, they are only effective if applied as prescribed. Compliance (human factors) is a key factor.”
Last week, McCafferkey was in London to collect a Pride of Britain award at the Daily Mirror’s annual event. In an interview with the BBC before the awards, she told how she continued to be affected by the virus after her recovery, revealing her hair had fallen out.
“So it’s taken me a good few months to recover from it. That’s the thing you don’t know long-term wise. Hopefully this is the end of it. You just don’t know,” she said.
More than a year after the epidemic, doctors are still learning about the long-term effects of Ebola. Before this latest outbreak it was it was known the virus remained in semen and vaginal fluid and survivors were advised to abstain from sex for three months after recovery.
Since the outbreak in west Africa, more research into the convalescent period has been conducted. US researchers and medics have discovered that the virus also continues to be present in ocular fluid in the eye and in spinal fluid.
One doctor in the US, Ian Crozier, who contracted the virus in Sierra Leone, reported a burning sensation in his eyes and worsening blurred vision two months after his recovery.
In an interview in the New York Times, he revealed that one of his eyes had changed colour about four months after being diagnosed. The pressure inside his eye, which had been dangerously elevated, began to drop. The eye became doughy to the touch, as if it were turning to mush. “The eye felt dead to me,” Crozier said.
The biggest shock came one morning about 10 days after his symptoms started, when he glanced in the mirror and saw that one eye, normally blue, had turned green.
Over the next few months his vision recovered and his eye returned to its natural colour. Scientists from Emory University School of Medicine found the fluid in his eye had live Ebola virus.
Dr John S Schieffelin, a physician from the Tulane University School of Medicine in the US who studied survivors in Kenema in Sierra Leone, where both Crozier and British nurse Will Pooley contracted the virus, said the main problems seemed to be joint pains, chronic headaches and an interruption of menstrual periods in women.
“I have met one former patient who appears to be deaf,” he told the New York Times.
The hearing loss could result from brain inflammation or very low blood pressure for an extended period, both caused by Ebola, Schieffelin said.
Dr Russell Van Gelder, of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, said at the time: “This remarkable case now demonstrates that the virus can remain viable in ocular fluids long after the patient has recovered from the systemic infection. If the Ebola epidemic continues, ophthalmologists throughout the world will be seeing patients with post-Ebola uveitis [inflammation], and will need to recognise and treat this condition.
“However, I want to emphasise that as far as we know, the Ebola virus is not transmitted by casual contact. The current study does not suggest that infection can be transmitted through contact with tears of patients who have recovered from their initial infection.”
Further studies by Emory University suggest the virus could remain in other “immune privileged” sites such as the central nervous system, testicles and cartilage.
Orphan Dauda Fullah told the Guardian that he continued to have joint pains months after recovery.
SCOTTISH EBOLA NURSE READMITTED TO HOSPITAL WITH EBOLA COMPLICATIONS
October 9, 2015 theunhivedmind4 comments
Scottish Ebola nurse readmitted to hospital after infection complication
Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted virus in west Africa last year, transferred to Royal Free hospital in London after feeling unwell
Lisa O’Carroll and Nadia Khomami
Friday 9 October 2015 08.47 BST
Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in west Africa last year, has been flown to the Royal Free hospital in London for treatment of an unusual late complication of the infection.
The 39-year-old was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow on Tuesday after feeling unwell. During her time there she was treated in the infectious diseases unit.
Cafferkey was transported from Glasgow in the early hours of Friday morning in a military aircraft under supervision.
Dr Emilia Crighton, the NHSGGC director of public health, said: “Pauline’s condition is a complication of a previous infection with the Ebola virus. The risk to the public is very low. 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.”
Cafferkey worked in Sierra Leone at the end of last year, and was diagnosed with the virus on her return to the UK in December. She recovered following treatment in isolation at the Royal Free, the UK’s specialist treatment centre for Ebola.
The Greater Glasgow health board said the virus was present in Cafferkey but that it was left over from the original infection. A government source said the transfer to the specialist unit was a “highly precautionary process”.
In a statement, the Royal Free said: “We can confirm that Pauline Cafferkey was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free London hospital in the early hours of this morning due to an unusual late complication of her previous infection by the Ebola virus.
“She will now be treated in isolation in the hospital’s high-level isolation unit under nationally agreed guidelines.
“The Ebola virus can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are symptomatic so the risk to the general public remains low and the NHS has well-established and practised infection control procedures in place.”
Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working in a Save the Children treatment centre in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone. The nurse arrived at Heathrow on 28 December and complained that she was developing a fever. Her temperature was found to be in the normal range and she was allowed to fly on to Glasgow.
Once home, her condition worsened and she was flown to the Royal Free, where she spent three weeks in a critical condition before recovering.
She contracted the disease while using a visor rather than goggles to treat patients at the facility, an internal investigation by Save the Children found.
“She was not able to use the standard protective goggles used there because she could not get them to fit properly,” the report said. “She acquired a visor that was the same as the one which she had used in her initial training but that was not used by Save the Children.
“Both visors and goggles are equally safe but there are slight differences in the types of clothing worn with each, and in the protocols for putting the equipment on and taking it off.”
The report added: “Although the procedures, equipment and protocols used at the ETC [Ebola treatment centre] are considered safe, they are only effective if applied as prescribed. Compliance (human factors) is a key factor.”
Last week, McCafferkey was in London to collect a Pride of Britain award at the Daily Mirror’s annual event. In an interview with the BBC before the awards, she told how she continued to be affected by the virus after her recovery, revealing her hair had fallen out.
“So it’s taken me a good few months to recover from it. That’s the thing you don’t know long-term wise. Hopefully this is the end of it. You just don’t know,” she said.
More than a year after the epidemic, doctors are still learning about the long-term effects of Ebola. Before this latest outbreak it was it was known the virus remained in semen and vaginal fluid and survivors were advised to abstain from sex for three months after recovery.
Since the outbreak in west Africa, more research into the convalescent period has been conducted. US researchers and medics have discovered that the virus also continues to be present in ocular fluid in the eye and in spinal fluid.
One doctor in the US, Ian Crozier, who contracted the virus in Sierra Leone, reported a burning sensation in his eyes and worsening blurred vision two months after his recovery.
In an interview in the New York Times, he revealed that one of his eyes had changed colour about four months after being diagnosed. The pressure inside his eye, which had been dangerously elevated, began to drop. The eye became doughy to the touch, as if it were turning to mush. “The eye felt dead to me,” Crozier said.
The biggest shock came one morning about 10 days after his symptoms started, when he glanced in the mirror and saw that one eye, normally blue, had turned green.
Over the next few months his vision recovered and his eye returned to its natural colour. Scientists from Emory University School of Medicine found the fluid in his eye had live Ebola virus.
Dr John S Schieffelin, a physician from the Tulane University School of Medicine in the US who studied survivors in Kenema in Sierra Leone, where both Crozier and British nurse Will Pooley contracted the virus, said the main problems seemed to be joint pains, chronic headaches and an interruption of menstrual periods in women.
“I have met one former patient who appears to be deaf,” he told the New York Times.
The hearing loss could result from brain inflammation or very low blood pressure for an extended period, both caused by Ebola, Schieffelin said.
Dr Russell Van Gelder, of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, said at the time: “This remarkable case now demonstrates that the virus can remain viable in ocular fluids long after the patient has recovered from the systemic infection. If the Ebola epidemic continues, ophthalmologists throughout the world will be seeing patients with post-Ebola uveitis [inflammation], and will need to recognise and treat this condition.
“However, I want to emphasise that as far as we know, the Ebola virus is not transmitted by casual contact. The current study does not suggest that infection can be transmitted through contact with tears of patients who have recovered from their initial infection.”
Further studies by Emory University suggest the virus could remain in other “immune privileged” sites such as the central nervous system, testicles and cartilage.
Orphan Dauda Fullah told the Guardian that he continued to have joint pains months after recovery.
SCOTTISH EBOLA NURSE READMITTED TO HOSPITAL WITH EBOLA COMPLICATIONS
October 9, 2015 theunhivedmind4 comments
Scottish Ebola nurse readmitted to hospital after infection complication
Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted virus in west Africa last year, transferred to Royal Free hospital in London after feeling unwell
Lisa O’Carroll and Nadia Khomami
Friday 9 October 2015 08.47 BST
Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in west Africa last year, has been flown to the Royal Free hospital in London for treatment of an unusual late complication of the infection.
The 39-year-old was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow on Tuesday after feeling unwell. During her time there she was treated in the infectious diseases unit.
Cafferkey was transported from Glasgow in the early hours of Friday morning in a military aircraft under supervision.
Dr Emilia Crighton, the NHSGGC director of public health, said: “Pauline’s condition is a complication of a previous infection with the Ebola virus. The risk to the public is very low. 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.”
Cafferkey worked in Sierra Leone at the end of last year, and was diagnosed with the virus on her return to the UK in December. She recovered following treatment in isolation at the Royal Free, the UK’s specialist treatment centre for Ebola.
The Greater Glasgow health board said the virus was present in Cafferkey but that it was left over from the original infection. A government source said the transfer to the specialist unit was a “highly precautionary process”.
In a statement, the Royal Free said: “We can confirm that Pauline Cafferkey was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free London hospital in the early hours of this morning due to an unusual late complication of her previous infection by the Ebola virus.
“She will now be treated in isolation in the hospital’s high-level isolation unit under nationally agreed guidelines.
“The Ebola virus can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are symptomatic so the risk to the general public remains low and the NHS has well-established and practised infection control procedures in place.”
Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working in a Save the Children treatment centre in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone. The nurse arrived at Heathrow on 28 December and complained that she was developing a fever. Her temperature was found to be in the normal range and she was allowed to fly on to Glasgow.
Once home, her condition worsened and she was flown to the Royal Free, where she spent three weeks in a critical condition before recovering.
She contracted the disease while using a visor rather than goggles to treat patients at the facility, an internal investigation by Save the Children found.
“She was not able to use the standard protective goggles used there because she could not get them to fit properly,” the report said. “She acquired a visor that was the same as the one which she had used in her initial training but that was not used by Save the Children.
“Both visors and goggles are equally safe but there are slight differences in the types of clothing worn with each, and in the protocols for putting the equipment on and taking it off.”
The report added: “Although the procedures, equipment and protocols used at the ETC [Ebola treatment centre] are considered safe, they are only effective if applied as prescribed. Compliance (human factors) is a key factor.”
Last week, McCafferkey was in London to collect a Pride of Britain award at the Daily Mirror’s annual event. In an interview with the BBC before the awards, she told how she continued to be affected by the virus after her recovery, revealing her hair had fallen out.
“So it’s taken me a good few months to recover from it. That’s the thing you don’t know long-term wise. Hopefully this is the end of it. You just don’t know,” she said.
More than a year after the epidemic, doctors are still learning about the long-term effects of Ebola. Before this latest outbreak it was it was known the virus remained in semen and vaginal fluid and survivors were advised to abstain from sex for three months after recovery.
Since the outbreak in west Africa, more research into the convalescent period has been conducted. US researchers and medics have discovered that the virus also continues to be present in ocular fluid in the eye and in spinal fluid.
One doctor in the US, Ian Crozier, who contracted the virus in Sierra Leone, reported a burning sensation in his eyes and worsening blurred vision two months after his recovery.
In an interview in the New York Times, he revealed that one of his eyes had changed colour about four months after being diagnosed. The pressure inside his eye, which had been dangerously elevated, began to drop. The eye became doughy to the touch, as if it were turning to mush. “The eye felt dead to me,” Crozier said.
The biggest shock came one morning about 10 days after his symptoms started, when he glanced in the mirror and saw that one eye, normally blue, had turned green.
Over the next few months his vision recovered and his eye returned to its natural colour. Scientists from Emory University School of Medicine found the fluid in his eye had live Ebola virus.
Dr John S Schieffelin, a physician from the Tulane University School of Medicine in the US who studied survivors in Kenema in Sierra Leone, where both Crozier and British nurse Will Pooley contracted the virus, said the main problems seemed to be joint pains, chronic headaches and an interruption of menstrual periods in women.
“I have met one former patient who appears to be deaf,” he told the New York Times.
The hearing loss could result from brain inflammation or very low blood pressure for an extended period, both caused by Ebola, Schieffelin said.
Dr Russell Van Gelder, of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, said at the time: “This remarkable case now demonstrates that the virus can remain viable in ocular fluids long after the patient has recovered from the systemic infection. If the Ebola epidemic continues, ophthalmologists throughout the world will be seeing patients with post-Ebola uveitis [inflammation], and will need to recognise and treat this condition.
“However, I want to emphasise that as far as we know, the Ebola virus is not transmitted by casual contact. The current study does not suggest that infection can be transmitted through contact with tears of patients who have recovered from their initial infection.”
Further studies by Emory University suggest the virus could remain in other “immune privileged” sites such as the central nervous system, testicles and cartilage.
Orphan Dauda Fullah told the Guardian that he continued to have joint pains months after recovery.
heunhivedmind
Maybe I’m being paranoid but the timing of this event seems a little suspicious especially when we know that big pharma is attempting to push through Lord Saatchi’s Mengele Bill (Medical Innovation Bill) now called Access to Medical Treatments Bill. I believe that the full economic collapse will be part covered up by the chaos of either a MERS-like, Ebola or Flu pandemic or the pretense of a pandemic. The timing also falls closer to Winter as we’re now into October when the vitamin D levels dramatically drop in the herd and they all become far more susceptible to infection. Keep your eyes and ears open!
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UK EBOLA MYSTERY! SCOTTISH NURSE READMITTED TO HOSPITAL IN SERIOUS CONDITION
October 9, 2015
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Pauline Cafferkey, a nurse who contracted Ebola last December while working in Sierra Leone with inadequate protective gear, has been readmitted to an isolation unit in London, suffering from a resurgence of the Ebola virus, according to the media.
This explanation defies anything seen so far. Some Ebola survivors have suffered significant health effects, but so far none has ever contracted Ebola again.
“There is no known case of any Ebola survivor relapsing into a serious condition even though it is known that the virus lingers on in some bodily fluids such as ocular and spinal fluid,” admits the Guardian.
A Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola about the same time as Cafferkey is now healthy enough to protest the way her dog was killed.
http://www.thelocal.es/20151009/spanish-ebola-nurse-protests-a-year-after-dog-was-killed
In the USA. Ebola survivor nurse Nina Pham is making good progress with her lawsuit, suing her hospital for sending her to treat an Ebola patient while failing to provide her with biosecurity level 4 equipment and training.
If Pauline Cafferkey does have Ebola, and the Ebola virus was not latent in her body, was it reintroduced by an external source? Who did Pauline Cafferkey meet in the past week or so?
The extraordinary case of Caffekey comes as the UN reports no new Ebola cases in Sierra Leone, Guinea or Liberia for the week ending Sunday Ocober 4th for the first time since March 2014.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=52203#.VhfUbysYOjY
There has been not a single case of an Ebola patient in those three West Africa countries who reported a new infection with Ebola ten months after an initial infection. People either die or they generate antibodies and recover.
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Family and friends of British nurse to be tested for Ebola after she contracts the virus again: Glasgow medic returns to London hospital isolation unit in ‘serious condition’
Pauline Cafferkey, 39, flown from Glasgow to Royal Free Hospital by RAF
She is in a ‘serious condition’ in isolation unit she was in ten months ago
Ten days ago she met PM’s wife at Downing Street reception for heroes
Nurse fell ill last year after treating Ebola sufferers in Sierra Leone
NHS says she was working until a week ago but patients are not at risk
By MARTIN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:13, 9 October 2015 | UPDATED: 23:23, 9 October 2015
The family and friends of a British nurse who contracted Ebola last Christmas will have to be tested for the deadly virus after she fell gravely ill for the second time today.
Pauline Cafferkey, 39, is in a ‘serious condition’ at the Royal Free Hospital in London after the RAF flew her down from Glasgow this morning.
Her second bout of Ebola came ten days after she received a Pride of Britain award from Lenny Henry and Carol Vorderman and met Samantha Cameron in Downing Street the following day.
Miss Cafferkey is now back in the isolation unit where she spent a month and became critically ill after being diagnosed with Ebola last December.
The NHS nurse was working at a GP surgery until a week ago but was not displaying Ebola symptoms so patients and colleagues are not at risk, NHS Lanarkshire said today.
But a small group likely to include her family, friends and those who initially treated her at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow will be tested for the deadly virus.
This morning the NHS nurse was wheeled from a jet at RAF Northolt by medics in hazard suits on a bed surrounded by a protective bubble before police closed roads so her ambulance could rush her to the nearby hospital in Hampstead.
She is said to have developed an ‘unusual late complication’ as a result of the original Ebola infection and tests have revealed that the virus is still lingering in her body.
Confirming the relapse – and the seriousness of her condition – Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt tweeted: ‘Thoughts with Pauline Cafferkey today as she battles Ebola for the second time’.
The nurse was given indefinite leave from her NHS job after she first fell ill with Ebola last December but had returned to work at a health centre in Lanarkshire, just south of Glasgow.
She had been working part time since mid-March as nurse based in Blantyre Health Centre near Glasgow and and had been well when she was last at work on October 1.
NHS Lanarkshire claim this means that no patients or colleagues are at risk.
Consultant in Public Health David Cromie said: ‘This is not a new case of ebola and is a complication of her previous illness. The Ebola virus can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are symptomatic. Pauline was well while at work and there is no wider public health risk for patients treated by her or her staff colleagues.
‘In line with normal procedures in cases such as this, a small number of close contacts of Pauline have been identified and will be followed up as a precaution.’
‘Together with Pauline’s colleagues our thoughts are with Pauline and we wish her a full speedy recovery.’
Ten days ago she was given a Pride of Britain award for her humanitarian work and also met the Prime Minister’s wife Samantha Cameron the following day at Downing Street, alongside other winners.
A spokesman for the Department of Health told MailOnline there was a ‘next-to zero risk’ of anyone at the Pride of Britain awards or Downing Street being infected.
He said: ‘She wasn’t symptomatic – she wasn’t displaying any symptoms of Ebola at the awards. She wasn’t ill then.
‘You can’t catch Ebola unless you are in really, really close contact with someone with Ebola.
‘Unless someone is displaying the symptoms you cannot catch it.’
Despite recovering from Ebola Pauline had complained about never having fully recovered after leaving hospital in January.
She said that her ordeal meant that her hair was falling out and she had problems with her thyroid.
Government sources have told MailOnline that Miss Cafferkey – who left the Royal Free in January – poses a low risk to the public. It is only spread by body fluids, such as blood, faeces and saliva.
The incubation period – the time between infection and the onset of symptoms – ranges from two days to three weeks.
It is understood that the nurse had taken herself to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow on Tuesday after feeling unwell.
She was treated in the infectious diseases unit.
Officials then found traces of the virus remained in her body and she was then flown by the RAF from Glasgow to London overnight.
She landed at RAF Northolt at around 6am and was taken off a military aircraft in a bed surrounded by a plastic bubble.
She was then transferred by ambulance to the Royal Free and police stopped traffic to allow a quick transfer to the isolation unit.
Pauline Cafferkey’s neighbours in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, today spoke of their surprise after the nurse was taken into an isolation unit. They said she lived on her own and described her as a private person.
One neighbour said: ‘I’m very surprised that she still has Ebola because of the reports coming from London which said she was okay.
‘I went to check with the doctors if I had caught Ebola, just in case, but I was relieved to be told it was just the flu.
‘She’s a very quiet but nice woman.
Another neighbour, who did not wish to be named, added: ‘She’s a very private person, I’ve only seen her three times since the first time she got out of hospital.’
Professor Paul Cosford, Medical Director at Public Health England said: ‘We can confirm that Pauline Cafferkey was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free Hospital in the early hours of this morning due to an unusual late complication of her previous illness.
‘She was transported in a military aircraft under the supervision of experts. She will now be treated in isolation in line with nationally agreed guidelines.
‘The Scottish health authorities will be following up on a small number of close contacts of Pauline’s as a precaution.
‘It is important to remember that the ebola virus can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are symptomatic.
‘The risk to the general public remains low and the NHS has well established and practised infection control procedures in place.’
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: ‘My very best wishes to Pauline Cafferkey for a speedy recovery.’
Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer Catherine Calderwood said: ‘We have been working closely with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Health Protection Scotland to ensure Pauline has received all appropriate treatment and care throughout her stay at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and onward transfer to the Royal Free Hospital.’
She added: ‘Pauline is now being cared for in the best place possible, with specialists who have the most experience of looking after patients who have previously recovered from the Ebola virus.’
The NHS nurse had been a volunteer with Save the Children at the Ebola Treatment Centre in Kerry Town Sierra Leone last year.
But she then fell ill when she returned to the UK just after Christmas, sparking panic because she had been on flights with hundreds of people.
After becoming gravely ill she survived after being given an anti-viral drug and is being transfused with blood plasma from a European Ebola survivor.
Last week she was on television talking about her illness after picking up a Pride of Britain award.
She told ITV’s Lorraine show she would go back to Sierra Leone again to treat patients.
Explaining how she felt when she realised she had Ebola: ‘Outwardly I just tried to be stoical about everything but inside obviously, I was very frightened.
‘I knew it could have gone three ways – it could have been mild, it could have been severe which it was with me and it could have been death the other outcome which I came very close to.’
She admitted afterwards that she had felt like ‘giving up’ as her condition became critical.
Miss Cafferkey’s case sparked a review of Britain’s Ebola screening systems.
She spent five weeks treating victims in Sierra Leone and then flew back to the UK.
It later emerged that officials at Heathrow had allowed her to board a connecting flight to Glasgow even though she had complained of a fever, testing her temperature seven times.
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt then announced that officials must use more rigorous checks for doctors and nurses returning to the UK following volunteer work.
Before her case the screening only involved them having their temperature taken and filling-in a questionnaire about whether they have come into contact with patients.
It meant that anyone who was mildly unwell was made to undergo further checks even if their temperature seems normal.
The disease has no known cure and is unpredictable.
The most recent outbreak of Ebola mainly affected three countries in West Africa: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
More than 28,000 cases and more than 11,000 deaths have been reported by the World Health Organisation.
Nurse Will Pooley, from Suffolk, last year became the first Briton to contract Ebola while working out in Sierra Leone. Following his recovery he returned to the country to continue helping treat patients.
Nurse Pauline Cafferkey was later diagnosed with the illness after returning from healthcare work in West Africa.
British Army medic Anna Cross, 25, recovered from the disease after being treated with an experimental drug. All three were treated at the high-level isolation ward at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
WHAT TREATMENTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR EBOLA AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THE PATIENTS WHO FALL ILL WITH THE KILLER DISEASE?
There are currently no specific drugs to cure Ebola, nor any approved vaccines to prevent the disease.
Two experimental vaccines are currently being trialled on human volunteers in the UK, US, Mali and Uganda.
The Royal Free Hospital (right) is the only High Level Isolation Unit in the UK to house two high-security containment beds.
They are located inside isolation ‘bubbles’ – specially-designed tents with controlled ventilation allowing medics to provide clinical care while containing the infection.
Three other hospitals – The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Royal Victoria Infirmary and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals – are designated centres for escalation if there was an epidemic.
There are around 50 other designated Ebola beds at these three centres.
Medics will work to re hydrate patients using oral and intravenous fluids.
Specific symptoms such as diarrohea and fever will be treated directly, to try and improve chances of surviving.
William Pooley, the British nurse who survived Ebola, was treated with the experimental drug ZMapp.
It is a blend of three laboratory-made antibodies designed to neutralise the virus.
Two US aid workers, Dr Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol were also given the drug after they were infected with the virus while working in Liberia. They too, subsequently recovered.
But experts do not know if those given the drug were saved by it, or whether luck played a part.
Around 45 per cent of those infected in the current outbreak have survived without treatment.
ZMapp, developed by US biotech company Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc, is manufactured in the leaves of genetically modified tobacco plants.
The process could yield 20 to 40 doses a month.
Evidence suggests that effective treatment with ZMapp requires three doses of 15 milligrams per kilogram of body weight.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Cafferkey was reinfected at Downing Street by the Samantha Cameron the daughter of Viscountess Astor
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