NURSE Pauline Cafferkey has said she will probably never run again due to the weakening effect of the Ebola virus.
The Scottish medical worker was discharged from hospital at the end of February after being treated for the third time for a complication linked to the disease.
Ms Cafferkey is a cousin of Irish soccer legend Packie Bonner and her late grandmother was from the Kincasslagh area of Donegal.
The 40-year-old from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, said she has been left with a permanent weakness in her left leg after contracting the virus while working in Sierra Leone at the height of the Ebola crisis in December 2014.
She revealed her case was the highest viral load of Ebola ever recorded in a survivor.
The nurse had three spells in isolation at hospital after contracting the virus but said she is now testing negative for Ebola and doing "great".
Speaking about her recovery, she told the BBC: "Although I am negative Ebola, I still have some remnants there as a result of it. But, on the other hand, I am alive and I have received the best care in the world.
"I've got pins and needles and numbness over various parts of my body. I've still got swelling at the base of my spine, which is very painful and dizziness - my balance isn't too good."
Ms Cafferkey said the after-effects of the virus also involved a weakness in her leg muscles.
"That's quite difficult to get my head around because I don't think I'll be able to do the fitness that I used to do," she said. "I don't think I'll be able to run again because I do have this leg weakness."
