Ebola Nurse May Be Offered Recovered Patients' Plasma

Nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who is battling Ebola at a London hospital, could be offered plasma from patients who have survived the virus.

The treatment contains antibodies that should help fight the infection.

British nurse William Pooley has donated plasma, Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies confirmed.

Other available treatments include antiviral drugs, but there are no stocks left of ZMapp - the drug used to treat Mr Pooley.

He recovered from Ebola in September after being treated at the Royal Free Hospital, in Hampstead, north London, where Ms Cafferkey is currently being cared for.

Having fought off the infection, his blood should help others do the same.

Dame Sally said it would be up to Ms Cafferkey and her doctor to decide which treatments to use, adding: "The cornerstone of treatment remains fluid and electrolyte treatment."

Ms Cafferkey was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Glasgow from Sierra Leone, where she had travelled with a group of healthcare workers from Save the Children.

She was said to be doing "as well as can be expected under the circumstances" by Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Another healthcare worker who was recently in West Africa and fell ill in the Scottish Highlands has tested negative for the disease.

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