At a time when the Zika virus continues to expand, the Ebola epidemic is once again talking about it with the hospitalization of one of the virus survivors. Pauline Cafferkey, a 40-year-old nurse from southern Scotland who had been contaminated with Ebola virusbefore being declared cured of the virus, was again admitted to hospital on Tuesday, February 23. This is his third hospitalization to undergo additional examinations following a routine check-up, a spokesperson for the health authorities told AFP. “Her condition remains stable,” doctors at the Glasgow hospital (Scotland) where she is staying told the BBC.
It was in December 2014 that Pauline Cafferkey tested positive for the Ebola virus while working in Guinea with the NGO Save The children.
Supported by medical teams, she was declared fully recovered in January 2015 after a one-month stay at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
But in October 2015, her health took a turn for the worse when she developed an unusual late complication of meningitis caused by Ebola. His condition was then deemed “serious”. But a few weeks later she was able to return home healthy.
The second case of reactivation of the virus
This nurse had interested the media and health authorities because she represented the second case of an Ebola survivor in whom the virus was reactivated. The first patient concerned had suffered from a persistent infection with the virus which led to a change in color of the eyes (from blue to green).
Since December 2013, the Ebola epidemic has killed at least 11,300 people. The virus is thought to have affected 29,000 people, mainly in West Africa (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra-Leone) according to a report by the World Health Organization which could be underestimated.
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