British nurse Pauline Cafferkey, isolated twice after contracting Ebola in 2014 in Sierra Leone, has been hospitalized for the third time, said the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. EFE
A spokesman for the NHS in Scotland, home to young, said that "after being examined routinely by the Infectious Diseases Unit, Pauline Cafferkey has been admitted to the hospital for further investigations."
Cafferkey has entered the University of Glasgow Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where last November and recovered from a virus-related meningitis.
The nurse was hospitalized twice after contracting the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone in December 2014.
The first time he spent nearly a month in the isolation unit of the Royal Free Hospital in London, where he was discharged after receiving an experimental treatment with blood plasma of another British patient, the nurse also Will Pooley.
In October 2015, health entered again at the health center to getting a virus-related meningitis, and came to be in critical condition before leaving with a medical discharge on November 12.
On that date, he was transferred to the University of Glasgow Queen Elizabeth Hospital to complete his recovery.
Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working in Kerry Town with the humanitarian organization "Save the Children" to try to contain the outbreak of the virus that affected West Africa.
The protocols in force in the UK state that any person diagnosed with Ebola should be transferred as soon as possible the isolation unit prepared in the London hospital.
Last October, the nurse, a native of South Lanarkshire, went to the doctor in Glasgow with symptoms that Dr. interpreted as a conventional virus but who were later diagnosed as meningitis caused by a complication of Ebola, the virus was still present in your body.
When in November was discharged from the Royal Free Hospital in London, where he had been rushed, the medical team said he had fully recovered and was no longer infectious.