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Heroic Ebola nurse Pauline was waved through at Heathrow after being tested SEVEN times for killer disease A SCOTTISH nurse who caught Ebola from patients in Sierra Leone was waved through Heathrow despite complaining of symptoms of the killer bug. Pauline Cafferkey warned airport officials about her china wholesale nhl jerseys high temperature after leaving a screening area and was retested six times over 30 minutes. But, despite flagging up that she felt unwell after spending five weeks caring for victims of the virus in West Africa, she was still given the green light to fly to Glasgow. She was diagnosed with the disease within hours of arriving in Scotland. Officials are now scrambling to trace everyone on her flight. Last night, Pauline was back in London being treated by world experts at the Royal Free Hospital. Friends are convinced that Pauline contracted Ebola after going out in Sierra Leone without the protective suit she always wore while treating Ebola patients. The 39 year old from Cambuslang in Glasgow who has been a nurse for 16 years spent the festive period working in Freetown's infamous "red zone" as a volunteer with Save the Children. And colleague Dr Martin Deahl, who was with Pauline on her flight back to the UK, said: "I can only assume she contracted Ebola by being in the community. "I went to church myself on Christmas morning and I have no doubt Pauline probably contracted the virus doing something similar. "We had a rule known as ABC Absolute no Body Contact but when you are in the community it is difficult to stick to the rules and easy to become complacent. "It is difficult when children come up and hug you." Associate public health nurse Pauline was inspired to go into the profession after seeing images of the Ethiopian famine in the 1980s. She normally works at Blantyre Health Centre in south Lanarkshire. She flew to Sierra Leone in November after nine days' training with a group of 30 NHS nurses, psychiatrists and emergency medicine specialists. In Sierra Leone. Pauline worked as part of a 30 strong team helping to wholesale mlb jerseys china treat patients with the killer disease In a diary documenting her work, Pauline admitted to feeling unwell during the first week of her stay in Africa. She said: "I was ill the other day, either from over hydration as not enough salts in my body or heat exhaustion. It's very difficult to judge the amount of fluid needed as the quantities we lose are immense. "I vomited out of the minibus window on the way home luckily I managed to avoid any splashback and being decapitated." The moving diary also tells how Pauline sympathised with the sick people she had to treat wearing a protective suit. She nhl jerseys china wrote: "I feel sorry for the poor patients who have alien type people caring for them. "Especially so for the young children, who are not only very sick but have these strange creatures with only their eyes visible trying to make them drink and take medications." Pauline returned to Glasgow via Casablanca and London Heathrow on Sunday night. She arrived at Glasgow on BA flight 1478 at around 11.30pm along with 71 other passengers, who are now being traced. She is believed to have been screened for Ebola in Sierra Leone and again at Heathrow, but her condition was only discovered after she was admitted to Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital early on Monday. Early yesterday she was transferred back to London. Pauline left her 'alien' suit with face mask in Sierra Leone Six police cars accompanied two ambulances as she was returned to Glasgow airport in a mobile isolation chamber. Dozens of medics wearing protective suits helped to load her on a military aircraft that is understood to have been flown to RAF Northolt. She was then taken to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London, where British nurse William Pooley was successfully treated for Ebola earlier this year.