A French nurse who contracted Ebola while volunteering for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Liberia has been cured of the deadly virus, the French health minister said Saturday.
The nurse, who has not been identified, “is now cured and has left hospital,” Marisol Touraine said in a statement.
The first French national to be infected with the virus was airlifted back to France on September 19 and received experimental treatment at a military hospital on the outskirts of Paris.
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This goes to show that having Ebola does not automatically mean a death sentence. There is hope for thousands of victims in West Africa, after all