Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey’s condition has ‘deteriorated’ and she is now

A statement from the Royal Free said on Wednesday: “We are sad to announce that Pauline Cafferkey‘s condition has deteriorated and she is now critically ill”.

“She is being treated for Ebola in the high level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital”. This study provides further evidence that survivors need continued, substantial support for the next 6 to 12 months to meet these challenges and to ensure their partners are not exposed to potential virus, ” said Bruce Aylward, WHO Director-General’s Special Representative on the Ebola Response.

Pauline Cafferkey, who had contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone’s Kerry Town while working in a Save the Children treatment centre, had been flown to the Royal Free hospital for treatment of an “unusual late complication” of the infection last week. The hospital has the UK’s most sophisticated infectious disease isolation unit, where patients are treated inside a plastic tent structure to avoid contact.

The World Health Organization recommends Ebola survivors forgo sex for the first three months after they recover.

Cafferkey is the first known Ebola victim to suffer a resurgence of the virus, though the African epidemic could have claimed similar victims without them being documented, The Guardian reported. “That may be why we don’t see many cases”, she said. Bausch asks: “Can we stay at zero if we still have many men who are still circulating out in society with potentially viable virus in their semen and the risk of sexual transmission and reintroduction?”

Patients may be left with muscle aches and pain, eye problems, ringing in the ears, and hearing loss after recovering from the disease, Adalja says.

“This virus is incredibly adept at hiding in places in our bodies considered immune privileged sites, places where we don’t have a lot of surveillance by the immune system, such as the eyes and the testes”, said Ilhem Messaoudi, associate professor of biomedical sciences at the University of California, Riverside. Crozier also said that his vision has improved, but it’s still not back to where it was before his illness.

FILE – In this undated colorized transmission electron micrograph file image made available by the CDC shows an Ebola virus virion.

Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was admitted to the isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north west London on Friday after becoming unwell in Glasgow.

“Survivors who volunteered for this study are doing something good for themselves and their families and are continuing to contribute to the fight against Ebola and our knowledge about this disease”, said Yusuf Kabba, National President of the

Ms Cafferkey, from Cambuslang in Lanarkshire, fell ill and went to a GP out-of-hours clinic at the Victoria Hospital in Glasgow on Monday last week but the doctor diagnosed it as being only a virus. Genetic material of Ebola was identified in the man’s sperm 175 days after he had developed symptoms, which is 74 days more than any previous cases studied at the time. Marburg and Ebola viruses are both native to Africa and live in animals, but both can be contracted by humans and spread through contact with contaminated body fluids.