Ebola: Cured Spanish nurse Teresa Romero recounts illness
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
The Spanish nurse who became the first person known to have contracted Ebola outside West Africa in the latest outbreak has given an emotional account of her ordeal as she left hospital.
Teresa Romero said she had clung to memories of family when she thought she was dying and still does not know how she caught the disease.
She had treated two returning Spanish missionaries who later died.
She vowed to donate blood to other Ebola victims until she "ran dry".
But in her first press conference after being discharged from the Carlos III hospital, she also condemned Spanish officials for putting down her dog.
She said they had unnecessarily "executed" the mixed breed Excalibur, according to a news agency.