EPA A handout picture shows Scottish healthcare worker Pauline Cafferkey at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
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She was transported in a military aircraft under supervision.
Nasidi also assured Nigerians that there was nothing to fear about as appropriate measures have been taken to protect the people and even those who might have had contact with the patient.
Pauline Cafferky is back in the hospital after a late complication from her previous infection with the Ebola virus.
Five days later, the Royal Free Hospital announced her condition had deteriorated to critical.
Pauline was diagnosed with the virus in December past year after she spent several months in Africa treating people for the deadly disease.
The deceased patient was admitted to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital in Nigeria’s southeast, staff at the hospital said, according to BBC Thursday.
“I think it is absolutely diabolical the way she has been treated…”
Thus, as of writing, the risk resulting from the incident remains fairly low.
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Neuman said the likelihood of survivors spreading Ebola depends on how much of the virus is present in the blood.
The disease has no known cure and is unpredictable.
A British nurse who was successfully treated in January after contracting Ebola in Sierra Leone was in a serious condition in hospital Friday due to rare late complications with the virus.
Cafferkey contracted the virus while working with Save the Children at an Ebola treatment center, said Michael von Bertele, humanitarian director at that organization.
John Edmunds, an expert at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that while the risk of transmission from survivors harbouring the virus in their eye fluids and other organs “appears to be very low”, it still warrants attention.
Ms Cafferkey’s temperature was tested seven times before she flew from Heathrow to Glasgow in December, and she had been cleared for travel.
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Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer, Catherine Calderwood, said everyone worked to ensure Ms Cafferkey had received all appropriate treatment and care prior to and during her transfer to the Royal Free. In a similar case detected in an American doctor, Ebola was found in his left eye months after he recovered.
