Ebola Nurse In Serious Condition, A SCOTTISH assistant who apprenticed the baleful Ebola virus while in Sierra Leone is in a “serious condition” in an abreast assemblage afterwards falling ill again.
Pauline Cafferkey, of Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, was aureate by aggressive aircraft to the Royal Free Hospital in London bygone morning from an abreast assemblage in Glasgow for analysis for “an abnormal backward complication” of the virus.
The virus can alone be transmitted by absolute acquaintance with claret or actual fluids of an adulterated getting while they are symptomatic
Royal Free Hospital
Officials accept confused to assure the accessible there is little accident of bane afterwards it emerged Ms Cafferkey had visited the Pride of Britain Awards, in London, as able-bodied as Mossneuk Primary School, East Kilbride, in the canicule afore she fell ill.
People who accept been in abutting acquaintance with her are getting monitored by bloom authorities as a precaution. Dr Emilia Crighton, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde administrator of Accessible Health, said it was not a new infection as Ms Cafferkey had apprenticed the virus in December 2014.
She said: “Pauline’s action is a aggravation of antecedent infection with the Ebola virus.
“The accident to the accessible is actual low. In band with accustomed procedures in cases such as this, we accept articular a baby amount of abutting contacts of Pauline’s that we will be afterward up as a precaution.”
Ebola has been apparent to abide for weeks or even months in locations of the physique and in actual fluids such as breastmilk, berry and aqueous axial the eyeball.
A account from the Royal Free Hospital said: “We can affirm that Pauline Cafferkey was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free London hospital in the aboriginal hours of this morning due to an abnormal backward aggravation of her antecedent infection by the Ebola virus.
“The Ebola virus can alone be transmitted by absolute acquaintance with the claret or actual fluids of an adulterated getting while they are symptomatic, so the accident to the accepted accessible charcoal low and the NHS has absolute and practised infection ascendancy procedures in place.”
Catherine Calderwood, Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer, added: “Pauline is now getting cared for in the best abode possible, with specialists who accept the a lot of acquaintance of searching afterwards patients who accept ahead recovered from the Ebola virus.”
Ms Cafferkey had alternate to her plan as a accessible bloom assistant at Blantyre Bloom Centre in March but she did not appearance any Ebola symptoms, NHS
Lanarkshire confirmed.
She was accepted to accept been able-bodied if she was endure at plan on 1 October . She took herself to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, in Glasgow, on Tuesday afterwards activity unwell.
David Cromie, adviser in accessible bloom at NHS Lanarkshire, said: “Pauline was able-bodied while at plan and there is no added accessible bloom accident for patients advised by her or her agents colleagues.
“In band with accustomed procedures, a baby amount of abutting contacts accept been articular and will be followed up as a precaution. Together with Pauline’s colleagues our thoughts are with Pauline and we ambition her a abounding accelerated recovery.”
Experts accept said that the 39-year-old is one of actual few patients to appearance signs of reactivated Ebola. Dr Ian Crozier, a US doctor who was advised at Emory Hospital in Atlanta, had viral chain in the aqueous in his eye, and there is affirmation of astute eye deepening a part of West African survivors.
David Evans, assistant of virology at St Andrews University, said: “Persistent Ebola virus infections accept rarely been appear previously. The majority of patients are advised non-infectious already affection and viremia – a virus in the claret – disappear.
“However, eye infections accept been detected nine weeks afterwards approval of viremia and the virus is apparent in seminal aqueous at atomic 14 weeks afterwards the access of affection in some patients.”
Virus can break in physique tissues
The Ebola virus can amble in actual tissues even afterwards the getting appears to accept fabricated a abounding recovery, according to experts.
Parts of the physique such as the eye, axial afraid arrangement and testes can harbour the virus, which can aswell behave in an capricious way.
Professor John Edmunds, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: “The Ebola virus can occasionally abide for some months in assertive tissues.
“The accident of manual from these individuals appears to be actual low. However, with so abounding survivors in West Africa now, there is a accident that added outbreaks can be triggered, which is why authorities accept to abide actual vigilant.”
Dr Ben Neuman, a virologist at the University of Reading, said he believes the angle for Pauline Cafferkey is good. He said: “The nice account actuality is that she’s baffled the virus already so she can apparently exhausted it again.
“The allowance are that she in fact has affiliated a advantageous set of genes and these are apparently what adequate her the aboriginal time and apparently what will accumulate her safe the additional time, behindhand of any treatment. I anticipate the outlook’s good.”
He said scientists are still acquirements about the virus.
“It seems that some of the advancing bloom problems with people’s eyes, joints and hair accident are in fact acquired not by the after-effects of Ebola, but by the baby amounts of Ebola which is still residing in the body.”
Q&A
What is Ebola?
Ebola is one of the world’s deadliest diseases, with added than 50 per cent of cases consistent in death. The virus is transmitted to humans from agrarian animals and spreads in the animal citizenry through human-to-human transmission. Outbreaks mainly action in limited villages. Fruit bats are believed to be the accustomed host of the virus. The ache was aboriginal recorded in two accompanying outbreaks in 1976 abreast the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The aboriginal cases of the accepted beginning in West Africa were detected in 2014.
What are symptoms?
The affection of Ebola are severe, with patients generally affected by a abrupt access of agitation as able-bodied as weakness, beef affliction and headaches. Vomiting, diarrhoea, rashes, branch and alarmist problems chase as the virus grips the body. The evolution aeon - the time amid infection and the access of affection - ranges from two canicule to three weeks.
How is it spread?
Ebola spreads from getting to getting as a aftereffect of absolute acquaintance with the blood, organs or added actual fluids of those infected, with healthcare workers a part of those who are a lot of at risk. However, it is alone catching while an adulterated getting is in fact adversity from symptoms.
Pauline Cafferkey, of Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, was aureate by aggressive aircraft to the Royal Free Hospital in London bygone morning from an abreast assemblage in Glasgow for analysis for “an abnormal backward complication” of the virus.
The virus can alone be transmitted by absolute acquaintance with claret or actual fluids of an adulterated getting while they are symptomatic
Royal Free Hospital
Officials accept confused to assure the accessible there is little accident of bane afterwards it emerged Ms Cafferkey had visited the Pride of Britain Awards, in London, as able-bodied as Mossneuk Primary School, East Kilbride, in the canicule afore she fell ill.
People who accept been in abutting acquaintance with her are getting monitored by bloom authorities as a precaution. Dr Emilia Crighton, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde administrator of Accessible Health, said it was not a new infection as Ms Cafferkey had apprenticed the virus in December 2014.
She said: “Pauline’s action is a aggravation of antecedent infection with the Ebola virus.
“The accident to the accessible is actual low. In band with accustomed procedures in cases such as this, we accept articular a baby amount of abutting contacts of Pauline’s that we will be afterward up as a precaution.”
Ebola has been apparent to abide for weeks or even months in locations of the physique and in actual fluids such as breastmilk, berry and aqueous axial the eyeball.
A account from the Royal Free Hospital said: “We can affirm that Pauline Cafferkey was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free London hospital in the aboriginal hours of this morning due to an abnormal backward aggravation of her antecedent infection by the Ebola virus.
“The Ebola virus can alone be transmitted by absolute acquaintance with the claret or actual fluids of an adulterated getting while they are symptomatic, so the accident to the accepted accessible charcoal low and the NHS has absolute and practised infection ascendancy procedures in place.”
Catherine Calderwood, Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer, added: “Pauline is now getting cared for in the best abode possible, with specialists who accept the a lot of acquaintance of searching afterwards patients who accept ahead recovered from the Ebola virus.”
Ms Cafferkey had alternate to her plan as a accessible bloom assistant at Blantyre Bloom Centre in March but she did not appearance any Ebola symptoms, NHS
Lanarkshire confirmed.
She was accepted to accept been able-bodied if she was endure at plan on 1 October . She took herself to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, in Glasgow, on Tuesday afterwards activity unwell.
David Cromie, adviser in accessible bloom at NHS Lanarkshire, said: “Pauline was able-bodied while at plan and there is no added accessible bloom accident for patients advised by her or her agents colleagues.
“In band with accustomed procedures, a baby amount of abutting contacts accept been articular and will be followed up as a precaution. Together with Pauline’s colleagues our thoughts are with Pauline and we ambition her a abounding accelerated recovery.”
Experts accept said that the 39-year-old is one of actual few patients to appearance signs of reactivated Ebola. Dr Ian Crozier, a US doctor who was advised at Emory Hospital in Atlanta, had viral chain in the aqueous in his eye, and there is affirmation of astute eye deepening a part of West African survivors.
David Evans, assistant of virology at St Andrews University, said: “Persistent Ebola virus infections accept rarely been appear previously. The majority of patients are advised non-infectious already affection and viremia – a virus in the claret – disappear.
“However, eye infections accept been detected nine weeks afterwards approval of viremia and the virus is apparent in seminal aqueous at atomic 14 weeks afterwards the access of affection in some patients.”
Virus can break in physique tissues
The Ebola virus can amble in actual tissues even afterwards the getting appears to accept fabricated a abounding recovery, according to experts.
Parts of the physique such as the eye, axial afraid arrangement and testes can harbour the virus, which can aswell behave in an capricious way.
Professor John Edmunds, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: “The Ebola virus can occasionally abide for some months in assertive tissues.
“The accident of manual from these individuals appears to be actual low. However, with so abounding survivors in West Africa now, there is a accident that added outbreaks can be triggered, which is why authorities accept to abide actual vigilant.”
Dr Ben Neuman, a virologist at the University of Reading, said he believes the angle for Pauline Cafferkey is good. He said: “The nice account actuality is that she’s baffled the virus already so she can apparently exhausted it again.
“The allowance are that she in fact has affiliated a advantageous set of genes and these are apparently what adequate her the aboriginal time and apparently what will accumulate her safe the additional time, behindhand of any treatment. I anticipate the outlook’s good.”
He said scientists are still acquirements about the virus.
“It seems that some of the advancing bloom problems with people’s eyes, joints and hair accident are in fact acquired not by the after-effects of Ebola, but by the baby amounts of Ebola which is still residing in the body.”
Q&A
What is Ebola?
Ebola is one of the world’s deadliest diseases, with added than 50 per cent of cases consistent in death. The virus is transmitted to humans from agrarian animals and spreads in the animal citizenry through human-to-human transmission. Outbreaks mainly action in limited villages. Fruit bats are believed to be the accustomed host of the virus. The ache was aboriginal recorded in two accompanying outbreaks in 1976 abreast the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The aboriginal cases of the accepted beginning in West Africa were detected in 2014.
What are symptoms?
The affection of Ebola are severe, with patients generally affected by a abrupt access of agitation as able-bodied as weakness, beef affliction and headaches. Vomiting, diarrhoea, rashes, branch and alarmist problems chase as the virus grips the body. The evolution aeon - the time amid infection and the access of affection - ranges from two canicule to three weeks.
How is it spread?
Ebola spreads from getting to getting as a aftereffect of absolute acquaintance with the blood, organs or added actual fluids of those infected, with healthcare workers a part of those who are a lot of at risk. However, it is alone catching while an adulterated getting is in fact adversity from symptoms.
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