A British military health worker who became infected with Ebola while in Sierra Leone, has been declared free of the virus.
Corporal Anna Cross, 25, was admitted to the Royal Free Hospital on 12 March and was the first Ebola patient in the world to be given the experimental drug MIL 77.
Speaking at a press conference in London, Cpl Cross thanked the medical team who looked after her and said she cried when she heard she was free of the virus.
"They are an absolutely incredible bunch of clinicians; incredibly skilled, incredibly intelligent," she said. "Thanks to them, I'm alive."
Cpl Cross had been working at a British built Ebola crisis centre in Kerry Town, southwest of the capital Freetown when she was diagnosed with the disease.
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