A British nurse infected with Ebola may have caught the deadly virus after playing with a 1-year-old boy whose mother died in a treatment center but who himself had initially tested negative for the disease, a medical colleague said.
William Pooley, 29, the first Briton to contract the virus, was flown back to Britain from Sierra Leone last weekend and is receiving the experimental drug ZMapp in a London hospital in an attempt to save his life.
Close to 1,500 people have so far died across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the worst epidemic in the disease's 38-year history. Symptoms of the highly contagious virus include vomiting and bleeding from the eyes and ears.