Scottish Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey readmitted to hospital
The Scottish nurse who contracted the Ebola virus while in Sierra Leone in 2014 has been readmitted to hospital under police escort.
Pauline Cafferkey, 40, was taken from her home in South Lanarkshire at about 9:30 a.m. local time on Thursday and admitted to hospital, Scotland police confirmed.
It's the fourth time Ms Cafferkey has been in hospital since returning to the UK.
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A spokeswoman for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said: “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.”
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wished her well on Twitter:
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Cafferkey spent almost a month in isolation at the Royal Free Hospital in London after returning from Sierra Leone in Dec. 2014. She was later discharged and declared out of danger after apparently making a full recovery.
In October last year she was readmitted to the same London hospital.
Experts were astonished to find that the virus had lurked in her brain or spinal cord undetected and then attacked again, causing meningitis.
She returned to the hospital for a third time in Feb. 2016 due to further complications related to the virus.
