British nurse, Will Pooley who contracted Ebola while working
in Sierra Leone has flown back to Sierra Leone after being treated and cured of the deadly disease in the UK
He is expected
to resume work tomorrow Monday October 20th in an Ebola isolation unit run
by a team backed by three NHS trusts and a London
He said he
“can’t see anything changing” in attitudes towards Africa ,
where diseases such as malaria have already killed 70 times more people than
Ebola this year.
The
Suffolk-born nurse said it had been an easy decision to return despite the worries
of his family and friends. He has said he cannot stand “idly by” and watch more
die. “I chose to go before and it was the right thing to do then and it’s still
the right thing to do now.”
Although it
is widely assumed that a person cannot contract Ebola twice, this is not
scientifically proven and Pooley has been warned that he still faces a risk.
“They have told me I very likely have immunity, at least for the near future,
to this strain of Ebola. I have also been told it’s a possibility that I don’t,
so I will just have to act as if I don’t,” he told the Guardian.
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