Yahoo – AFP,
12 Jan 2015
Protective clothing and facilities are in place at The Royal Free hospital in north London in preparation for a patient testing positive for the Ebola virus, August 6, 2014 (AFP Photo/Leon Neal) |
London
(AFP) - A British nurse who contracted Ebola while working as a volunteer in
Sierra Leone is "no longer critically ill", the London hospital
treating her said Monday.
Pauline
Cafferkey is showing signs of improvement but remains in isolation, the Royal
Free Hospital in London said in a statement.
Cafferkey
was diagnosed in Glasgow on December 29 before being transferred to the Royal
Free, which has the only isolation ward for Ebola patients in Britain.
She had
contracted the disease while working as a volunteer at a British-built Ebola
treatment centre in Sierra Leone.
The Ebola
outbreak in West Africa has killed nearly 8,300 people with more than 21,000
cases identified since December of last year, according to World Health
Organization (WHO) figures.
The vast
majority of cases have been in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
A total of
838 healthcare workers are known to have contracted the virus and 495 of them
had died as of January 4, the WHO has said.
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