When first told she had Ebola she said "it was really hard for a few hours".

She added: "Then something within me just kicked in, as it does in difficult situations."

But when it came to telling her family about the virus she was "completely chicken".

The military sent people to support her relatives during this time.

Doctors said she is now completely free of Ebola after being cared for in an isolation unit.

But she added: "It's going to take time until I can just be normal and get about my normal day. Then I have to be military fit, that might take months."

Prof Jonathan Ball, a virus expert at the University of Nottingham, said: "This is fantastic news that another individual admitted to the Royal Free has recovered from Ebola.

"She was given an experimental drug, but it is impossible to say whether or not this directly contributed to her clearing the virus.

"In order to know whether a drug does work we need experimental trials and thankfully trials of various drugs are underway in West Africa, where Ebola virus is still doggedly clinging on."

Ebola has claimed more than 10,000 lives across the worst-affected countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia in the past 12 months.