William Pooley (Ebola patient)
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William Pooley is the first British person known to have contracted an ebolavirus outside the laboratory.[1]Template:Refn A nurse, Pooley contracted Ebola virus in Sierra Leone in 2014, while working as a volunteer to help care for the victims of the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. He was evacuated to Britain by the Royal Air Force, and received treatment at Royal Free Hospital in the United Kingdom including ZMapp, an experimental biopharmaceutical drug comprising three humanized monoclonal antibodies.[1]
Pooley called on David Cameron and Barack Obama to do more to mobilise the international community to combat the epidemic, saying "It's a global problem and it needs global level leadership so Obama and Cameron ... need to show some more leadership on this issue."[2]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Spencer, Ben. "British Ebola victim lands at RAF Northolt from Sierra Leone and is given police escort to London hospital for isolation ward treatment". http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2733120/London-standby-operation-bring-Brit-ebola-Sierra-Leone-begins.html.
- ↑ O'Carroll, Lisa. "William Pooley plans return to the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone". http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/09/william-pooley-ebola-sierra-leone-outbreak-epidemic. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
