The patient ebola suddenly recurred after being thought to be cured

This is not the first case that doctors returning from the Ebola epidemic are tested to be free from the virus.

Patients with Ebola get sick again

A Scottish female nurse infected with Ebola virus who had been cured in January 2015 was in critical condition due to complications.

Nurse Pauline Cafferkey volunteered to the West African nation of Sierra Leone last year to treat patients infected with the Ebola virus. Early on 9 October, Cafferkey was taken to Royal Free Hospital in London by military aircraft. Royal Free Hospital is a place to receive cases of isolation due to a lethal disease. Earlier, nurse Cafferkey was hospitalized in Glasgow in Scotland on September 6 after feeling unwell.

In a statement, the Royal Free Hospital said Cafferkey was a rare complication of the Ebola virus that the nurse had been infected with before. Currently, the patient is in critical condition and monitored. According to Royal Free Hospital, Ebola virus can only be infected by direct contact with infected human blood or fluids. Scottish health officials have contacted a handful of people who have had close contact with Cafferkey to prevent the risk of infection.

Nurse Pauline Cafferkey.

Cafferkey was diagnosed with Ebola virus in December 2014 after returning to Glasgow from Sierra Leone. Cafferkey was quarantined for nearly a month at the Royal Free Hospital, and was treated with a combination of an antiviral drug that was still in beta and a person's blood was cured of Ebola.

On October 7, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that there were no new cases of Ebola virus infection in West Africa in the week to October 4, marking the first week without more cases. new infection of this deadly disease since March 2014. According to the WHO, the Ebola outbreak since December 2013 has been the worst outbreak, with 11,312 deaths and 28,457 infected people, since health officials first identified the virus at Central African region in 1976. Most cases of Ebola infection in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone countries.

This is not the first case that doctors returning from the Ebola epidemic that have been tested to be free of the virus appear again, before Dr. Ian Crozier of Atlanta (USA) was diagnosed as well. strong. But only two months later, Crozier began to have problems with his eyesight, and the doctor was stunned to see signs of the virus in his tears. However, after checking, Crozier was still considered to be negative for Ebola virus, meaning it could not become a new source of Eobla spread.