Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey discharged from Royal Free Hospital

Released: Pauline Cafferkey has been discharged from London's Royal Free Hospital
Lisa Ferguson/Scotland on Sunday/PA Wire
Mark Chandler28 February 2016

Nurse Pauline Cafferkey has been discharged from a London hospital where she was being treated for the third time since contracting Ebola.

The Scottish 40-year-old was flown to the Royal Free Hospital last week due to a “complication” related to her previous infection.

A spokesman for the Royal Free confirmed she had been discharged today and that she was “not infectious”.

He added: “The Ebola virus can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are symptomatic.”

Ms Cafferkey was originally infected with the virus while working at the Save the Children treatment centre in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone, in December 2014.

She spent almost a month in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital and was released after making a full recovery.

However, she fell ill again in October last year and was again treated at the Royal Free for meningitis caused by Ebola.

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