Scottish
nurse Pauline Cafferkey is to be given a new anti-viral drug to help her fight the
Ebola virus and according to the doctors treating her, the next few days will
be critical for her.
Experts
treating her in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in North London
said the unnamed medicine is experimental and not yet proven to work.
The
39-year-old will also receive convalescent plasma from someone who has survived
the deadly disease. It contains
anti-bodies that doctors hope will help her fight off the virus, which she may
have contracted after attending a Christmas service in Sierra Leone without
wearing her protective suit.
Ms
Cafferkey, a public health nurse at Blantyre Health Centre in South
Lanarkshire, was part of a 30-strong team treating Ebola patients in the West
African country. She was deployed to
Africa by the UK Government last month.
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