Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who nearly died twice from Ebola, has said she is seeking “closure” as she announced plans to return to Sierra Leone for the first time since contracting the disease there. Cafferkey, 41, became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the UK after returning from Sierra Leone, where she had worked as a volunteer in December 2014. Now working as a health visitor support nurse in South Lanarkshire, in Scotland, she is returning to Sierra Leone – where Ebola has since been eradicated – to raise funds for the charity Street Child. “It’ll be great to see Sierra Leone in a different state, and also know that I might be able to help as well. “The Ebola patients in Sierra Leone didn’t know what they were going home to, or who was left alive in their family.

Source: The Guardian April 12, 2017 08:26 UTC