According to the hospital, Cafferkey was being treated in an isolation unit for the infection.
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Ms Cafferkey was admitted to hospital the following day, before being transferred to London to be treated in an isolation unit.
Her family have now claimed doctors missed an opportunity to diagnose that she had fallen ill with an Ebola-related condition up to 24 hours before it was eventually recognised.
“Apart from visual problems, which affect approximately 50 percent of Ebola survivors in Kenema, people complain of “body aches” such as joint, muscle, and chest pain”.
Such a case is not totally surprising, said Ben Neuman, a virologist at the University of Reading.
However, Cafferkey had to return to the hospital early this October after suffering from complications. She will be kept in isolation and closely monitored, but Public Health England say there is very little risk to the general public.
Dr Emilia Crighton, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) director of public health, said: “Pauline’s condition is a complication of a previous infection with the Ebola virus”. She clarified that though the nurse was given a clean bill of health, the sneaky Ebola virus somehow managed to stay undetected and remained in hibernation.
The nurse, from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, spent nearly a month in an isolation unit at the hospital earlier this year.
The internal investigation by Save the Children into how Ms Cafferkey contracted Ebola said she was unable to use the standard protective goggles because she could not get them to fit properly.
When she left the hospital, Cafferkey said she was “very happy to be alive” and was looking forward getting back to her “normal life”.
The Scottish health authorities were to get in touch with a small number of Cafferkey’s close contacts as a precaution.
Ebola can stay covered in survivors’ tissue implying that its belongings could proceed long after individuals have evidently recuperated, specialists said today.
Ebola can easily be transmitted through close contact or direct contact with blood and exchange of bodily fluids. Routine follow up, too, did not show any Ebola symptoms, confirmed an NHS spokesperson, reported the Scotsman.
It isn’t clear what treatment Ms Cafferkey is undergoing now that she has returned to hospital.
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She has been re-admitted after attending Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital because she felt unwell. She traveled to the London Hospital from Glasgow by RAF jet this morning, “ten months” after she first recovered from the Ebola virus.
