Nurse in serious condition after ebola relapse – World – NZ Herald News
2015-10-10
A nurse who almost died after contracting ebola is in a serious condition in hospital after the virus reactivated.Pauline Cafferkey was flown by military plane from Scotland to London, where she was last night in a specialist isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital.Her relapse – only the second case ever recorded
Source: Nurse in serious condition after ebola relapse – World – NZ Herald News
The first case of recorded relapse was not the only case of persistent Ebola. A case of transmission from a husband to wife resulted in the wife’s death, leading to the discovery that the virus persisted in the man’s testes and was transmissible through semen. The Ebola virus has also been recorded as persisting in the eye and causing uveitis.
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