Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey has been named as the first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.K. after returning from volunteering in Sierra Leone.
Ms. Cafferkey had written movingly on treating Ebola patients in an online diary published shortly before she was diagnosed with the disease, according to a report in The Telegraph .
Cafferkey is being treated at the Royal Free Hospital in north London, having been transferred on a military-style plane from her local hospital in Glasgow.
Ms. Cafferkey was able to pass through Heathrow, board a flight with other passengers to Glasgow and return home before she began to feel ill.
“The area where the Ebola patients are is classed as the infective red zone, and the area surrounding it, the safe green zone. Bizarrely we find ourselves saying ‘good luck’ to our colleagues prior to entering the red zone, a sobering reminder of what we are doing,” she wrote in her diary.
Health officials are asking anybody who may have had contact with Ms. Cafferkey since her return to the U.K. to contact them on a specially set up telephone hotline, including passengers on a flight from Heathrow to Glasgow.
