You see some people taking other people's lives, Nurse Pauline Cafferkey is a peron giving lives to others. Nurse Pauline Cafferkey is the "Ebola Nurse" who is critically ill. God bless you and I sincerely pray for your speedy recovery.
please log in to view this image I strongly believe that she is going to recover. If you have faith line this she is going to recover. We are going to move mountain for her. please log in to view this image
How Pauline Cafferkey's Ebola relapse tears up everything doctors thought they knew Doctors and scientists are amazed and appalled at the Scottish nurse’s relapse, which has worrying implications for the thousands of survivors in wehttp://www.theguardian.com/world/20...tears-up-everything-doctors-thought-they-knewst Africa
Sadly though Dribs,at the end of the day faith will have **** all to do with it. I really hope she makes it.
reports say her condition has improved http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34574899 Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey's condition 'has improved' 2 hours ago From the section Glasgow & West Scotland please log in to view this image Image captionMs Cafferkey is being treated in a specialist unit in London The condition of a Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa has improved, according to the hospital where she is being treated. Pauline Cafferkey was readmitted to a specialist isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London this month. She was being treated for complications after tests showed the infection was still present in her system. Last week her condition was described as "critical", but the hospital said she was now "serious but stable". Ms Cafferkey, 39, from Cambuslang in South Lanarkshire, contracted Ebola while working at a treatment centre in Sierra Leone last year. She spent almost a month in isolation at the Royal Free at the beginning of the year after the virus was detected when she arrived back in the UK. She was later discharged after apparently making a full recovery. please log in to view this image Image copyrightThe Scotsman Image captionMs Cafferkey worked as a nurse at an Ebola treatment facility in Sierra Leone at the height of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa Ms Cafferkey had returned to work as a public health nurse at Blantyre Health Centre in South Lanarkshire. However, she became unwell earlier this month and was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow for treatment. Ms Cafferkey's family claimed doctors had "missed a big opportunity" to spot she had fallen ill with Ebola again after it emerged she had been sent home by an out-of-hours doctor who saw her earlier that week. 'Serious but stable' On 9 October, she was flown from Glasgow to London in a military aircraft to receive treatment in the isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital. Last Wednesday, the hospital said Ms Cafferkey was "critically ill" after her condition deteriorated. But in an update on Monday afternoon, the hospital said: "We are able to announce that Pauline Cafferkey's condition has improved to serious but stable." Bodily tissues can harbour the Ebola infection months after the person appears to have fully recovered. A total of 58 close contacts of Ms Cafferkey have been identified, with 40 of those offered vaccinations as a precaution.
Question I have is... Why did thousands of Africans who had Ebola and survived not have relapses but a single British woman did? Must have something to do with the unique medical care she received. Bizarre coincidence if not. Perhaps some drug that helped her recover that was not available to many in Africa made the drug go dormant?
I know in my heart of heart that she is going to make it. I always pray for her every morning. Cheers get well quick. ..
My daughter is a student nurse. She's going on a placement to Cambodia in 18 months. I burst with pride and fear when I think of their dedication. We really should think twice when we whinge about taxes and VAT: despite what the Mail says, it doesn't all go on housing 20-strong Somali families in Park Lane penthouses.
Some profession we have little or no respect for, sadly to say that includes nursing. They should be "the big fat cats".
They can't say that's the case though, as it's possible they returned to their villages etc and died months later without the correlation being made to Ebola. They know it can lay dormant, and there's cases of men infecting women via semen months after being clear of the virus
Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey nearly died from meningitis, doctors say Doctors say British nurse has long recovery ahead of her after suffering meningitis brought on by lingering Ebola infection please log in to view this image British nurse Pauline Cafferkey contracted Ebola in December, while volunteering in Sierra Leone. Photograph: Reuters TV Pauline Cafferkey, the British nurse who contracted Ebola nine months ago in west Africa, came close to death from meningitis caused by the lingering virus, doctors have revealed. Her condition has significantly improved and she is now well enough to chat to medics, use her iPad and sit up in bed. Doctors expect her to make a slow but full recovery. Dr Mike Jacobs, an infectious diseases consultant at the Royal Free hospital in London, said Cafferkey had not become reinfected with the virus since her recovery in January but it had persisted in the brain, and this had led to viral meningitis. “The virus re-emerged around the brain and around the spinal column to cause meningitis,” Jacobs said. “She developed some serious neurological complications.” Asked how ill Cafferkey had become, Jacobs said: “It is really important to understand the word critical. It means someone is at imminent risk of dying. We were all extremely concerned about Pauline’s condition a week ago.” He added: “We’re very hopeful that Pauline will slowly make a full recovery, that’s very much in our sights. Over time we anticipate that the virus will be completely eradicated. She has a long road to full recovery.” Cafferkey, from South Lanarkshire, contracted Ebola in December while working in Sierra Leone and was treated with an experimental antiviral drug known as GS5734, being developed by the US drugmaker Gilead Sciences. She complained of feeling unwell two weeks ago and was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free specialist isolation unit where she had been first treated for Ebola. Jacobs said Cafferkey’s readmission had been unexpected. “This is a situation we didn’t expect to face and is new to us. It was a surprise for sure and I felt pretty devastated for Pauline. It seemed incredibly unlucky that this happened to someone who had volunteered to go and help in Sierra Leone and assist the humanitarian effort.” The Ebola virus is known to persist in some sites in the body, including the testes, the spinal cord and the eye chamber, after it has cleared the bloodstream. But scientists are only now beginning to find out more about where it can survive and for how long, and when it might re-emerge. “It is an extraordinary evolving scientific story and we are clearly not at the end,” Jacobs said. http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...table-royal-free-hospital?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 Good News
Nurse Kaci Hickox who was quarantined over Ebola fears sues Christie October 22, 2015, 3:00 PM Last updated: Thursday, October 22, 2015, 9:21 PM By SCOTT FALLON and JAMES M. O’NEILL please log in to view this image Nurse Kaci Hickox speaks to reporters Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, in Fort Kent, Maine. A nurse held for three days in quarantine at a Newark hospital last year after aiding Ebola patients in West Africa has filed suit against Governor Christie and members of his administration, saying they violated her constitutional rights by holding her against her will without due process. The nurse, Kaci Hickox, had spent a month in Sierra Leone treating Ebola patients and training other health workers for Doctors Without Borders. When she returned home on Oct. 24 and landed at Newark Liberty International Airport, she became the first health worker ensnared in the Christie administration’s new policy to impose a 21-day mandatory quarantine on travelers arriving from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea who had come in contact with Ebola patients. “We are filing this claim to hold those who made this decision accountable and also to highlight and fight against the lack of due process in the quarantine policy in New Jersey,” Hickox said Thursday via skype from her home in Oregon. “It was clear to me that politicians and in particular Governor Christie were really reacting out of fear,” she said. “When you choose to detain someone out of fear that’s discrimination.” The incident occurred last fall amid growing national worries about Ebola reaching the United States from West Africa, where an outbreak has killed more than 11,300 people and infected more than 28,500, according to the World Health Organization. Before Hickox’s return to the United States, a Liberian national who was visiting Texas died of Ebola at a Dallas hospital and Craig Spencer, a Manhattan doctor who had worked with Ebola patients in Guinea, set off a health scare in New York City after he rode the subway and visited a bowling alley while sick from the disease, though he didn’t yet know he had the virus. He has since recovered. Related: N.J. releases details on mandatory Ebola screening and quarantine Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled Ebola quarantine policies last October amid public concern that health workers who had been treating Ebola patients could not be trusted to self-quarantine when they returned to the United States. At one point, New Jersey had about 100 people in active monitoring, different than quarantine because they must contact local health officials daily and must take their temperatures and watch for symptoms. Related: Ebola quarantine process criticized by health care worker isolated in Newark When questioned about the quarantine policy last year, Christie defended it. “Your first and most important job is to protect the health and safety of the people who live within your borders, and the fact is that we’re doing exactly the right thing,” he had said. A poll taken a few weeks after the quarantine policy was implemented, 67 percent of New Jersey residents approved of the decision to quarantine Hickox, and just 19 percent disagreed. Hickox, 34, is seeking $250,000 in compensatory and punitive damages. Norman Siegel, a civil rights lawyer representing Hickox, said that amounts to $2,000 for each hour of her 80-hour detention plus extra for punitive damages. The 35-page complaint, filed in the United States District Court of New Jersey, also names as defendants Mary O’Dowd, the former state health commissioner, as well as Christopher Rinn and Gary Ludwig, two other employees of the state health department. Siegel said Hickox is suing Christie and others as individuals, which could mean the governor would have to pay for his own private lawyer as well as pay any judgment himself if the court sided with Hickox. “It sends a message to other elected officials that they will be held personally responsible for actions like this,” Siegel said. Christie spokesman Brian Murray said Thursday the governor would not comment on the suit because it is a pending legal matter. Ebola spreads through direct contact with body fluids or through exposure to objects contaminated with the virus, such as needles. Symptoms, including fever, headache and muscle aches, commonly appear within eight to 10 days of exposure, but the maximum incubation period is 21 days. In her complaint, Hickox argues that she followed all Doctors Without Borders infection control policies while in Sierra Leone, such as wearing protective equipment when in contact with patients and keeping a three-foot distance from people suspected of having Ebola. After landing in Newark and telling immigration officials she had been treating Ebola patients, Hickox was held apart in a quarantine center at the airport. “No one told her what was going on or what was going to happen to her,” the complaint states. “There seemed to be no coordination among the persons who interviewed her.” Among those who questioned her was a man wearing a weapon belt “who spoke to Hickox aggressively as if she were a criminal,” according to the complaint. When someone tested her with a non-contact thermometer, it registered a temperature, but an oral thermometer later used at University Hospital in Newark showed no fever. Hickox was taken from the airport to the hospital in an ambulance escorted by eight police cars with lights flashing and sirens blaring, and she was held in an isolation tent in an unfinished section of the hospital facility with inadequate heating, the complaint states. She had to ask for several blankets to keep warm, and had no access to the outside world other than her cell phone, which had weak reception, making it hard for her to send or receive email for personal or legal reasons, according to the complaint. She had access to a portable toilet but not a shower. “I felt completely alone and vulnerable,” Hickox said. “It was really hard. I had a lot of tough moments.” While being held, she showed no symptoms of Ebola, and threatened legal action with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union. At the time, Christie replied in response, “I’ve been sued lots of times before. Get in line. I’m happy to take it on.” He also said he didn’t think the state’s quarantine policy would discourage health care workers from going to West Africa. “I think folks should understand part of the sacrifice is going over there and the remainder of the sacrifice is when you come home,” he said then. Hickox was later released and went home to Maine, where she was kept under quarantine for several days until a Maine judge ruled she didn’t have to be quarantined. Hickox’s experience became a cause celebre among other health care workers, and her case sparked national debate about how to handle people exposed to Ebola. Christie and President Obama also clashed publicly over the state’s quarantine policy. Hickox said she did not sue University Hospital or the health care providers because they weren’t the ones who enforced the quarantine. She called the nurses, doctors and staff “wonderful, compassionate and kind.” Before her stint in Sierra Leone, Hickox had also worked as a medical team leader, nurse manager and primary health care manager for Doctors Without Borders in Uganda, Nigeria, Sudan and Myanmar. Hickox married in the past year and moved to Oregon where she is “a clinical nurse educator for a large health care provider.” She has not been out of the country since Sierra Leone. But she said she hopes to do more humanitarian work overseas and hopes New Jersey’s quarantine policy is changed by then were she to land back in Newark. http://www.northjersey.com/news/nur...ined-over-ebola-fears-sues-christie-1.1438959
Nurse suffering from Ebola is sitting up and talking to her family after being treated with experimental drugs as doctor says the next few days will be crucial to her surviva http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ine-Cafferkey-treated-experimental-drugs.html
Significant improvement’ by Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey please log in to view this image .news-story-responsive { width: 320px; height: 50px; } @media(min-width: 768px) { .news-story-responsive { width: 336px; height: 280px; } } @media(max-width: 648px) { .news-story-responsive { width: 300px; height: 250px; } } About 10 days ago, an Ebola nurse who worked in Sierra Leone for Save the Children Foundation previous year, was rushed to Royal Free Hospital from Scotland when she again became ill from the Ebola virus. In related news, Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola last December in West Africa before recovering in late January, came close to death from meningitis caused by the virus, her doctors said today. The Glasgow nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra leone, Pauline Cafferkey, is doing well after a sudden turn for the worse landed her back in hospital. “This is an unprecedented situation”, said Nathalie MacDermott, an Ebola expert and clinical research fellow at Imperial College London. He said doctors had discussed its use with her and that the balance of risks favored this treatment. “We’re unable to rule out the fact that people who had intimate contact with a few of her body fluids for whatever reason, there may have been a risk they could have been infected with Ebola“. “She has got a long recovery ahead of her and she will be with us for quite a while”. Neurologic complications due to meningitis caused life-threatening disease while Cafferkey was being treated at the specialist isolation unit at Royal Free, Jacobs said. She is inside the tent, she is still in bed, but she is talking freely within the tent. “I think she has a long recovery ahead of her”, he added. Fortunately, doctors were very concerned for Pauline and speaking about her health today makes them thrilled. Ms Cafferkey was the first patient in the world to be given the experimental anti-viral drug GS-5734, as previously-used antibody therapies are not suitable to be used on the brain. Indeed, if Ebola is transmitted sexually even after the virus has been flushed out of the rest of the body (apart from the testies), then we should have seen more cases considering the number of surviving males. Evidence of the virus was found in their brains and other organs not typically infected by Ebola, said Dr Lisa Hensley, a scientist with the National Institutes of Health. Dr Jacobs said he was unable to put a timescale on Ms Cafferkey’s recovery, and said she would remain in the isolation unit for the short term. http://tvnewsroom.org/newslines/hea...vement-by-ebola-nurse-pauline-cafferkey-2905/
please log in to view this image Nurse Mariatu Fofana says she should have known better than to touch and hug her father as he lay dying at his home near the capital of Sierra Leone, but she has paid an unbearable price for her error. Ebola had been raging for months by the time he fell ill in February with symptoms of the disease. Health organizations and aid had flooded the country, reinforcing the government’s drive to educate the public on how to stop the spread of the virus. As a nurse, Fofana knew the rules: isolate the patient, wash hands, avoid contact with victims of the disease. But her father had been diagnosed—wrongly, with a hernia and her love for her father allowed her to drop her guard in his final days of life. “Initially I didn’t want to touch him,” she said of the time when he fell sick. After he died, she said: “I held him in my arms, shook him.” http://qz.com/532662/the-last-days-...ccess-to-information-as-access-to-healthcare/
SHE MADE IT please log in to view this image Ms Cafferkey thanked staff at the Royal Free, including senior matron Breda Athan and consultant Dr Michael Jacob (both pictured), for the care she received.
