Scottish Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey recovers from late complication

Medics at a specialist unit at the Royal Free Hospital inLondon, where Pauline Cafferkey was readmitted in October, saidshe was no longer infectious and had been discharged from thereand admitted to a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Cafferkey, 39, contracted Ebola in December 2014 when shewas working in a treatment facility in Sierra Leone at theheight of an epidemic of the disease which swept through threecountries in West Africa.

But in October she fell ill again and doctors found thevirus was persisting in tissues in her brain. They later saidshe had developed meningitis cause by the Ebola virus thefirst known such case.

Latest data from the World Health Organization on the WestAfrica Ebola outbreak show the virus has killed some 11,300 ofthe more than 28,500 people it has infected since December2013.