By Louise Boyle for MailOnline The third American missionary worker to have contracted Ebola was named today as Dr Rick Sacra as his colleague Nancy Writebol spoke for the first time following her amazing recovery from the deadly virus. The 59-year-old aid worker, along with her husband David, smiled broadly and waved for the cameras as she spoke at length at the SIM USA charity's campus in Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday. Mrs Writebol beamed as she said it was wonderful to be with everyone just weeks after falling ill with the virus which kills 90 per cent of sufferers.
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Nancy Writebol, a 59-year-old aid worker, along with her husband David, spoke in Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday
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Mrs Writebol said it was a privilege to be alive and that some mornings she did not think she was going to make it
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Third American missionary worker, Dr Rick Sacra, 51, who was delivering babies in Liberia, has been diagnosed with Ebola
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Her colleague Dr Kent Brantly who also contracted Ebola described on Tuesday how he struggled to breathe and was left violently shaking
Mrs Writebol said: '@placeholder went to hug me and put his arms around me and I knew how dangerous that was and I said, ''David, don’t.