UK nurse who had Ebola hospitalized again for 'complication'

Story highlights
Pauline Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working in
Sierra Leone in 2014
Ten months later, she was hospitalized with
meningitis triggered by the Ebola
Cafferkey is now at a London hospital with another
"late complication" from her previous Ebola
infection
(CNN)— For the second time, a Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola 14 months
ago has been hospitalized for a "late complication" from the original infection.
Pauline Cafferkey has been admitted to London's Royal Free Hospital "due to a
late complication from her previous infection by the Ebola virus," the hospital said
Tuesday.
The hospital did not specify when she was admitted. But the nurse "will be
treated by the hospital's infectious diseases team under nationally agreed
guidelines," it said.
The hospital also did not say what the complication was.
Cafferkey was previously readmitted to the hospital in October for what UK health
officials called a "late complication." Dr. Michael Jacobs, a specialist in infectious
diseases at that London hospital, later clarified that Cafferkey's complication was
meningitis, not a relapse of Ebola.
"This is the original Ebola virus that she had many months ago which has been
inside the brain, replicating at a very low level probably, and which has now re-
emerged to cause this clinical illness of meningitis," Jacobs said last year about
the October complication.
Cafferkey recovered from the meningitis and was released in December.
2014 Ebola infection
Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone in December 2014.
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She didn't learn that her own life was at risk until she fell ill shortly after
returning to the UK later that month. Cafferkey was diagnosed with Ebola and
was moved for intensive treatment to the Royal Free Hospital, which has an
isolation unit with a tent with controlled ventilation set up over the patient's bed.
At one point during that initial stay, the London hospital said that Cafferkey's
condition had "gradually deteriorated over ... two days" and that she was then in
critical condition .
She managed to rebound, and weeks later she went home .
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More than 10,000 people have died from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa since
2014.
Last July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that a newly
developed vaccine was " highly effective" and could help prevent the spread of
Ebola.
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