Valerie Cox tells how husband recovered from virus that hits brain of 'two people in a million'

He contracted the virus while the couple worked as volunteers with refugees in Greece.

Valerie Cox, who spent 11 years reporting on RTE Radio One's "Today with Sean O'Rourke" programme spoke about her husband Brian's long battle to overcome encephalitis.

The illness left him in a coma with little hope of survival, but Valerie said that she never believed that Brian was going to die, even though the consultants did.