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 Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth
University Hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free Hospital in London
early on Friday morning due to "an unusual late complication" of her
previous infection by the Ebola virus, the Royal Free said in a
statement.
"She will now be treated in isolation in the hospital’s high level
isolation unit under nationally agreed guidelines," it said.
Cafferkey, from South Lanarkshire, Scotland, spent several weeks in
an isolation unit at the Royal Free at the beginning of the year
after contracting the virus in December 2014.
She was the first person to have been diagnosed with Ebola on
British soil. She was discharged in January after seemingly making a
full recovery.
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 Royal Free said the risk to the general public
remains low.
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(Reporting by James Davey; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
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