Spanish Nurse Cleared from Ebola

A Spanish nurse's assistant who left the hospital Wednesday after beating Ebola said she was still weak but gave thanks to God and the health workers who cared for her that she was still alive.

Looking frail but happy, Teresa Romero Ramos was greeted by cheers as she spoke to journalists, flanked by her husband, Javier Limon.

Romero, who described her recovery as a "miracle" from God, said she was ready to do whatever she could to help others infected with Ebola.

And she indicated that she still doesn't know how she contracted the virus.

 

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"I don't know what went wrong, even if something did go wrong. All I know is that I can't give any reproach and if my experience will allow me to help others with vaccination or by giving blood, then I am here."

She added, "If with my blood there can be cures, I am here and willing to try, even if it means risking my life."

Romero has spent the past 30 days at the Carlos III Hospital in Madrid, the same hospital where she contracted the illness while helping to care for an infected missionary who had been brought back from West Africa.

She praised the care she received while there.

"It is because of the doctors and nurses, cleaning staff and security that I am here," she said. "We have the best health system in the world which sometimes, despite the politics, is able to carry out miracles."

But she also spoke of her loneliness in the early stages, as she faced possible death.

"When I saw myself dying, I had memories of my family, of my husband," she said. "I felt myself isolated, I didn't have contact with the exterior apart from Javier."

Now, Romero said, she needs to be left in peace to rest and recuperate.

from CNN