Ebola-infected U.K. nurse Pauline Cafferkey critical

January 03, 2015 08:28 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 05:54 pm IST - LONDON

An ambulance carrying Pauline Cafferkey, the first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.K., arrives at the Royal Free Hospital in London. File photo

An ambulance carrying Pauline Cafferkey, the first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.K., arrives at the Royal Free Hospital in London. File photo

The hospital treating a British nurse, who contracted the Ebola virus in West Africa, said her condition has deteriorated to critical.

Pauline Cafferkey, the first person diagnosed with Ebola on British soil, returned to Britain on December 28 from Sierra Leone. She is being treated in an isolation unit at London’s Royal Free Hospital with an experimental antiviral drug and with plasma from a recovered patient containing Ebola-fighting antibodies.

The hospital said on Saturday the nurse’s condition had deteriorated over the past two days.

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