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Ebola: British nurse in critical condition

Few days after she was transferred from Scotland to north London on an RAF Hercules plane, Pauline Cafferkey, the British nurse who became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the UK is now in a critical condition.
A brief statement on the hospital’s website reads: “The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is sorry to announce that the condition of Pauline Cafferkey has gradually deteriorated over the past two days and is now critical.”
The 39-year-old was part of a team of medical volunteers deployed to Africa by the UK Government last month is being treated using the blood of a recovered patient and an experimental anti-viral drug.
Unfortunately the ZMapp drug used to treat a fellow British volunteer nurse William Pooley who recovered from the disease is according to reports, no longer available in the world.
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Photo of first British Ebola victim surfaces

The British health worker who became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the UK has been identified.
She’s been transferred from Glasgow to the isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
A passenger who sat next to her on the plane told Daily Mail that the Ebola testing regime at Heathrow Airport was shambolic as staff ran out of medical kits.
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Ebola: 3 cases confirmed in the UK


‎I hope this is contained as soon as possible. Two cases of the Ebola Virus Disease has been confirmed in the UK.
The first case is from a 58 year old British health worker who had been working in Sierra Leone with Save the Children. She was diagnosed of the disease while on a flight from Casablanca to Glasgow on Sunday night. She was admitted to Glasgow’s Gartnavel Hospital hospital on Monday morning and transferred to a specialist unit in London this morning.
Two more patients have also being tested for Ebola in Scotland and Cornwall. One is being examined at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, Cornwall, and the other – a female heath worker – at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland told BBC radio. “Although this is another returning healthcare worker from West Africa, the patient here has had no, as far as we’re aware, direct contact with people infected with Ebola. This patient over the course of today will be transferred for tests.”
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