She will now be treated in isolation in the hospital’s high level isolation unit under nationally agreed guidelines. She was admitted to the Royal Free Hospital in London on December 30, 2014 and was discharged the following month.
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“She was transported in a military aircraft under the supervision of experts”. However, as a precaution, health officials are monitoring the individuals with whom Cafferkey came into close contact. David Cherry, 36, an engineering manager whose seven-year-old twin boys were at the talk, said: ‘I think she obviously has got a great story to tell but how do I feel about her coming into a primary school?
When she left the hospital, Cafferkey said she was “very happy to be alive” and was looking forward getting back to her “normal life”.
She spent a month in the same unit at the start of the year after being diagnosed with Ebola while working in Sierra Leone.
Ebola survivor Pauline Cafferkey returned to the Royal Free Hospital after a relapse.
Dr Martin Deahl travelled to the west African country past year on the same aid mission as Miss Cafferkey, and sat next to her on the flight home just after Christmas. At the time, the Royal Free’s Dr Michael Jacobs said that she had made a complete recovery and was “not infectious in any way”.
However, Ben Neuman, a virologist at the University of Reading, told BBC that he believes Cafferkey’s outlook is good.
She met the Prime Minister’s wife Samantha Cameron the following day at Downing Street, alongside other winners.
New cases have fallen sharply in 2015, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the disease could break out again.
“She wasn’t symptomatic – she wasn’t displaying any symptoms of Ebola at the awards”.
There is also a nurse in Dallas, Texas, who survived the virus but is suffering from fatigue, insomnia, body aches and liver problems.
“The newly-discovered twist on this post-Ebola syndrome is that, in a few cases, the health problems – often including damage to the eyes and joints – is actually caused by live Ebola virus growing in bodily fluids in a few of the less accessible compartments of the body”.
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“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”.
