The U.K. healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone is being treated at a London facility with an experimental drug.
BBC News noted that doctors at the Royal Free Hospital said that patient Pauline Cafferkey is being treated with an anti-viral drug as well as blood plasma from Ebola survivors.
"She's as well as we can hope for at this stage of the illness,” said Dr. Michael Jacobs. “She's had the treatment, it's gone very smoothly, no side-effects at all."
Another healthcare worker, William Pooley, was treated at the same hospital and recovered from the disease in September. He was given ZMapp, however, there are no stocks of that anti-viral drug available at this time.
As previously reported, officials confirmed that Cafferkey was infected with the deadly virus while working with a volunteer group in West Africa. She was admitted to a hospital in Glasgow and transferred to the isolation unit in Hampstead on Tuesday.
The Ebola outbreak is the deadliest in history and has claimed the lives of more than 7,800 people.
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