An ambulance pulls away from the Royal Free hospital in London on January 2015

LONDON NEWS;

A British  nurse who contracted Ebola
in Sierra Leone and was hospitises in
London this week  is now in a critical
condition the hospital treating her said.

On Wednesday doctors had said the
39 year old Scot was sitting up in bed
reading and talking   to staff from inside
her isolation tent in the hospital.

They said Cafferkey who was working
with the charity Save the children in Sierra
Leone had agreed to have  blood plasma
treatment .

However they were not able to give her
ZMapp,the drug successfully used to
treat fellowBritish volunteer nurse
William Pooley ,because global supplies
had run out.

Doctor Michael Jacobs,infectious disease
consultant at the Royal Free had warned
at the time that "Ebola runs a very variable
course and the next few days are going to
be critical.

British Prime Minister David Cameron
said on Twitter, "Thoughts and prayers
are with nurse Pauline Cafferkey who is
in critical condition with Ebola."

She was diagnosed in Glasgow on December
29 after flying home and was transfered to
the Royal free  which has the only isolation
ward in Britain equipped for Ebola.
AFP