A BRITISH nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone last year is being treated for an “unusual late complication” of the infection.

Pauline Cafferkey was transferred from a hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free Hospital in Pond Street, Hampstead in the early hours of this morning (October 9.

The Royal Free said she will be treated in the hospital’s high level isolation unit.

Ms Cafferkey was diagnosed with Ebola in December last year after returning to Glasgow from Sierra Leone.

She spent almost a month in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital at the beginning of the year, and was discharged in late January.

A statement from the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust said: “The Ebola virus can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are symptomatic so the risk to the general public remains low and the NHS has well established and practised infection control procedures in place.”