Nurse, 29, who volunteered to help care for Ebola patients because local staff were too afraid, is credited with saving dozens of lives by making sure a hospital at the centre of the outbreak remained open

William Pooley at work in Sierra Leone helping to prevent the spread of Ebola
The British nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone gave an interview days before he fell ill in which he spoke of his joy at seeing patients recover from the virus.
William Pooley, 29, who volunteered to help care for Ebola patients because local nurses were too afraid, is credited with saving dozens of lives by making sure a hospital at the centre of the outbreak remained open.
Colleagues said he caught the disease, transmitted through contact with blood or other bodily fluids, because he was working such long hours that he was bound to “make a mistake” in his precautions.
Mr Pooley, from Eyke, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, is being treated in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital, in Hampstead, north London, after being flown home on Sunday by the RAF.
His family released a statement on Monday in which they said he was receiving “excellent” care.