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 Save the Children's Sierra Leone director Rob MacGillivray told BBC
TV that the charity would investigate the circumstances surrounding
the infection of Pauline Cafferkey who had worked for the charity at
a treatment center in the country.
"We have put in an extraordinary review to ensure that we do
everything, leave no stone unturned, to be able to as far as
possible identify the source of this infection," MacGillivray told
the BBC.
Cafferkey, 39, is in a critical condition at the Royal Free Hospital
in London, having been diagnosed with the disease last week after
she returned to Britain from the West African country.
The West African Ebola outbreak was first identified in Guinea's
remote southeast in early 2014. Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia
have borne the brunt of the 20,000 infections and nearly 8,000 dead.
MacGillivray said the investigation would focus on how protective
equipment was used and person-to-person contact.
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The Royal Free, Britain's main center for Ebola cases, successfully
treated British aid worker William Pooley with the experimental drug
ZMapp after he was flown back to Britain in August.
Cafferkey is being treated with blood plasma from an Ebola survivor
and an experimental anti-viral drug.
(Reporting by Sarah Young; editing by Michael Holden)
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