Scottish bishop asks for prayers critically ill nurse, UK's first ebola patient

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“Let’s pray a daily Hail Mary again for nurse Pauline Cafferkey, sick with the effects of the ebola virus, for her to make a speedy and full recovery and for her family to feel the strength of our spiritual support in these trying days for them,” the Bishop of Paisley said today as the condition of the UK’s first ebola patient deteriorates.

Pauline Cafferkey, 39, from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, was diagnosed with ebola last December after returning to Glasgow via London from working in Sierra Leone. After almost a month of treatments in an isolation unit at London’s Royal Free Hospital, she was discharged in late January. She was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital last Tuesday before being transferred to to the isolation unit the Royal Free on Friday.

In a statement the Royal Free says: “We are sad to announce that Pauline Cafferkey’s condition has deteriorated and she is now critically ill. She is being treated for ebola in the high level isolation unit.”

Full report: sconews.co.uk/news/47690/paisley-bishop-asks-for-prayers-for-pauline-cafferkey-scottish-nurse-critically-ill-with-ebola/
 
I was not aware that Ebola could go quiescent within a person’s system, then go into full potency again. That’s extremely disturbing, but might explain a lot.

Nobody seems to be sure where the Ebola virus came from in Africa, though I think a lot of people think fruit bats are the vectors. But maybe people are too. Maybe, like “Typhoid Mary”, some can become infected but not symptomatic or mildly symptomatic, then undergo an exacerbation, mild or minimal, in which they become infective again.

Lots of people in Africa have died of Ebola, but a lot have survived. Is every one of the latter a carrier, then, or only some?
 
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

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Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.

Prayer said for the nurse and her family and loved ones.

Mary.
 
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