Pauline Cafferkey

Pauline Cafferkey is a Scottish nurse and aid worker who contracted Ebola virus disease in 2014 while working at an Ebola treatment centre in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone, during the West African epidemic. She was diagnosed on 29 December 2014 at Gartnavel General Hospital in Glasgow, treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London, and declared free of infection on 24 January 2015. In October 2015 she was admitted again with late complications, including meningitis caused by the virus persisting in her cerebrospinal fluid, and was treated with an experimental antiviral agent, GS-5734. Her case showed that the virus can linger in parts of the body the immune system does not reach, and it prompted a review of screening at UK points of entry. A 2016 Nursing and Midwifery Council case against her was dismissed. The record here is of what happened, never medical advice.