Scots Ebola nurse given experimental drugs

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Doctors treating Ms Cafferkey, 39, revealed she has been given plasma taken from the blood of a recovered patient and an unnamed anti-viral drug which is not proven to work.

The public health nurse is receiving specialist treatment via a quarantine tent at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.

Measures to tackle the spread of the virus came under scrutiny after it emerged Ms Cafferkey was on four public flights as she returned home from volunteering in Sierra Leone.

She was allowed to fly from Heathrow to Glasgow on Sunday despite raising concerns she may have caught the virus. Ms Cafferkey is not being treated with the drug given to British Ebola surviver Will Pooley because supplies have run out.

Shes as well as we can hope for at this stage of the illness.

Dr Michael Jacobs

Doctor Michael Jacobs infectious diseases consultant at the Royal Free said the hospital was unable to obtain ZMapp, because there is none in the world at the moment.

Describing the patients condition, Dr Jacobs said: She is sitting up and talking. She is able to read. Shes been eating a bit, drinking and shes been in communication with her family, which has been really nice.

Shes as well as we can hope for at this stage of the illness.

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