Pursuits
Ebola Safety Steps Probed by U.K. Charity
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The U.K. charity Save the Children initiated a review of safety procedures at an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone in an effort to understand how a Scottish nurse caught the lethal virus.
The nurse, 39-year-old Pauline Cafferkey, spent three weeks in December tending to Ebola patients at the treatment center Save the Children operates in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone. Her condition stabilized yesterday at the Royal Free Hospital in London after becoming critical over the weekend, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told Parliament today.