An undated Cafferkey family handout photograph of Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey, from Blantyre, a healthcare worker, who was working at a Save the Children specialist ebola hospital in Sierra Leone and has been treated in London's Royal Free Hospital. - EPA
LONDON, Oct 14, 2015 (AFP) - A British nurse who was successfully treated in January after contracting Ebola in Sierra Leone is now "critically ill" due to a resurgence of the virus, the hospital treating her said on Wednesday.
"We are sad to announce that Pauline Cafferkey’s condition has deteriorated and she is now critically ill. Pauline is being treated for Ebola in the high-level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital," it said in a statement.
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