A 39-year-old Scottish nurse, who recovered from Ebola twice, was today admitted to a special isolation ward in a London hospital for a third time since her return to the UK after contracting with deadly virus in Sierra Leone in 2014.
Pauline Cafferkey was initially admitted to Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospitalbut was later transferred to the Royal Free Hospital here.
A spokesman for the Royal Free said: "We can confirm that Pauline Cafferkey is being transferred to the Royal Free hospital due to a late complication from her previous infection by the Ebola virus. She will now be treated by the hospital's infectious diseases team under nationally agreed guidelines."
Her condition was described as "stable" before she wasput on a Royal Air Force (RAF) Hercules aircraft to fly to Royal Free Hospital for specialist treatment.
Cafferkey was treated at the same hospital twice in 2015 after contracting Ebola in Sierra Leone while working as a nurse at the Save the Children treatment centre in Kerry Town.
Last year, the Royal Free Hospital had said Cafferkey had made a full recovery from Ebola and was no longer infectious.
The nurse was earlier in the day admitted for what the National Health Service (NHS) termed as "routine monitoring" by its Infectious Diseases Unit.
"Under routine monitoring by the Infectious Diseases Unit, Pauline Cafferkey has been admitted to hospital for further investigations,"an NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde spokesperson said.
She had beendiagnosed in December 2014 after returning to Glasgow from the west African country via London.
At the time of her re-admission last November, the situation was described as "unprecedented" as the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Cafferkey was the only known Ebola survivor to develop meningitis months later.
At one point the Scottish nurse was described as "critically ill" but was discharged and transferred to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow to continue her recovery and later returned home.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported in March 2014, and rapidly became the deadliest occurrence of the disease since its discovery in 1976.
The total number of reported cases is about 28,637.
In January 2016, WHO declared the last of the countries affected, Liberia, to be Ebola-free.
