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Corporal
Anna Cross speaks during a press conference at London's Royal Free Hospital
where she has been discharged after being successfully treated for Ebola
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An
Army Reservist who has been discharged from hospital after being successfully
treated for Ebola said it was thanks to medical staff that she is alive.
Corporal
Anna Cross, 25, told a press conference at London's Royal Free Hospital that
she had been treated by an "absolutely incredible bunch of
clinicians".
"Thanks
to them I'm alive," she added.
Press Association reports:
Cpl
Cross, from Cambridge, also praised the NHS, which she works for, as well as
the Army.
"If
it wasn't for both of those institutions I wouldn't be here today," she
said.
Cpl
Cross is the first person in the world to be treated with the experimental drug
MIL 77 after choosing to do so following "careful consideration", the
hospital said.
She
joined the Army Reserves in 2013 as a staff nurse and volunteered to help care
for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, arriving there last month.
She
was evacuated back to the UK in an RAF plane on March 12 after becoming the
third Briton to test positive for the virus.
Cpl
Cross said she cried when she found out she was free of the virus and
attributed eating strawberries to help her through it.
She
said it will still take a "long time" before she is fully fit and
would "love" to continue volunteering with the military although she
suspected she would not be able to return to Sierra Leone.
Cpl
Cross said she had no idea how she contracted the virus.
An
investigation was carried out at the treatment centre but did not find this
out.
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