A former Bermuda health worker who was struck down with Ebola early last year has been readmitted to hospital in a serious condition due to an “unusual late complication”, according to a Sky News report.

Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey had seemingly made a recovery following the infection that she picked up while working in Sierra Leone with Save The Children.

According to the news report she was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow to the Royal Free London hospital this morning in a military aircraft under supervision.

It said the Royal Free released a statement saying: “She will now be treated in isolation in the hospital’s high-level isolation unit under nationally agreed guidelines.

“The Ebola virus can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person while they are symptomatic so the risk to the general public remains low and the NHS has well established and practised infection control procedures in place.”

Ms Cafferkey worked as a nurse in King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s Cooper Ward from September 2005 to February 2007. Ms Cafferkey also played for the Mariners rugby team.

A friend of Ms Cafferkey said at the time of news of the original infection: “I first met Pauline way back in 2006 through rugby and she was one of the first friends I made in Bermuda.

“I remember her to be loads of fun and very happy go lucky.”

Ebola is a dangerous virus spread by direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, or by contact with a recently contaminated surface. A variety of factors have hampered international efforts to contain the epidemic, which has hit the West African nations of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea worst of all.