Ebola patient in Germany cured, sent back home to Senegal
A WHO scientist was diagnosed with ebola, treated in Germany, and returned home to Senegal Friday.
A WHO scientist was diagnosed with ebola, treated in Germany, and returned home to Senegal Friday.
A scientist who was infected with聽Ebola聽while working for the World Health Organization in Sierra Leone has recovered and been discharged from a German hospital.
The University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf says the unidentified man, who was brought to聽Germany聽in late August, left the hospital on Friday.
In a statement Saturday it said he was doing well and had returned to his home country.
WHO said the man from Senegal had been infected while working for the agency as a consultant in West Africa, which is experiencing the biggest聽Ebola聽outbreak on record.
Another patient who contracted聽Ebola聽in West Africa is being treated in Frankfurt. The unidentified Ugandan man who worked for an Italian aid group was brought there on Friday from Sierra Leone.
Reuters reports the worldwide death toll from the disease is聽3,439 people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
There had been 739 deaths in Guinea聽and 623 deaths in Sierra Leone by the end of Oct. 1, and 2,069 deaths in Liberia聽聽by Sept. 30, the data showed. There have also been eight deaths in Nigeria, the U.N. body said.
Overall, the WHO said there had been 7,492 ebola cases recorded.聽(Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Andrew Heavens).
Four US health care workers diagnosed with Ebola all survived after receiving treatment in the US. As聽海角大神 reported, this is not the first time a global pandemic has been averted.
.