Pauline Cafferkey

I'm pretty sure you - like  me - can remember when you first heard of Pauline Cafferkey. 

She gave up a safe job in Scotland to go and work as a nurse in a hospital in Sierra Leone, in a community ravaged by ebola. She got sick and nearly died of this terrible disease. It seems ebola is now embedded deep in her system (she's now been ill a second time) and may keep coming back to haunt her. After all her efforts to help other people, this is her reward. 

When she volunteered, I imagine she knew the risks of contracting ebola but I doubt if she ever reckoned she'd have to face a hearing conducted by who knows what professional body, which is accusing her of lying about her health when she was on her way back from Sierra Leone. 

I have a few questions to ask: 

- Why would Pauline Cafferkey lie about the state of her health on her return to the UK? Is she some sort of sociopath, determined to spread ebola across Europe? Or is she someone in the middle of a 23 hour journey from Sierra Leone to Glasgow who walked into a shambles at Heathrow and is now being punished for wanting to go home?  

- Why weren't the health checks at Heathrow rigorous enough to pick up ebola? It's hard to believe that a couple of paracetamol stood between Pauline Cafferkey and a correct diagnosis. If her condition had been picked up at Heathrow, maybe she wouldn't have had to go through two attacks of ebola.  

- What is the point of the hearing Pauline Cafferkey is now going through? We're dealing here with a well-qualified, well-motivated professional who went to west Africa in order to help the sick. Does anyone question her motives for going there? I doubt it. 

- What will be the outcome of the hearing she's going through? Will she be barred from practising as a nurse? That would be ridiculous, since she has already proved many times over that she's a valuable member of society. What if a 'verdict' of guilty means that other members of the nursing profession are deterred from going around the world helping in terrible situations? 

Can anyone bring some sense to this situation?