Two American aid workers who were infected with Ebola are discharged from an Atlanta hospital, where doctors say they pose no risk to public safety.
Dr. Kent Brantly of Texas was given ZMapp, an experimental drug treatment used on a handful of patients in the West African outbreak and produced by U.S.-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical.
Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare themselves to carry an abandoned dead body in Liberia. The current outbreak in West Africa is the largest ever, and officials have said that treatment centres, especially in Liberia, are filling up faster than new ones can be opened or expanded. (2Tango/Reuters)
Brantly, 33, spoke at a news conference on Thursday at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where he and U.S. missionary Nancy Writebol have been treated since being evacuated from Liberia earlier this month.
She has been discharged, said Dr. Bruce Ribner, medical director of the infectious disease unit at Emory University Hospital.
Ribner said they are confident the discharged patients pose no risk.
"It was the right decision to bring these patients back to Emory for treatment," Ribner said, and will hopefully help to improve survival elsewhere.
Brantly will leave Emory's hospital after the news conference, a spokesman for the Christian charity Samaritan's
Purse said.
Writebol, 59, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was also treated with ZMapp.
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that 2,473 people have been infected and 1,350 have died since the Ebola outbreak was identified in remote southeastern Guinea in March.
It said that no cases of the disease had been confirmed outside of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria — the
countries affected by the outbreak — despite cases having been suspected elsewhere.
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