British Nurse Re-admitted For Ebola

Pauline Cafferkey was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free London hospital this morning in a military aircraft under supervision.

The British nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone last year has been re-admitted to hospital with an "unusual late complication" from the infection.

In a statement, the Royal Free said she is in a serious condition.

"She will now be treated in isolation in the hospital's high-level isolation unit under nationally agreed guidelines," the statement read.

"The Ebola virus can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are symptomatic so the risk to the general public remains low and the NHS has well established and practised infection control procedures in place."

Professor Paul Cosford, medical director at Public Health England, said the Scottish health authorities will be following up on a number of close contacts of Ms Cafferkey's as a precaution.