The Spanish caregiver who was the first person infected with Ebola outside of Africa has more than viral load.
While she was the last week in a "critical" condition, the caregiver Spanish Teresa Romero, first person to have contracted Ebola outside of Africa, seems to have overcome the disease, three weeks after have felt the first symptoms.
A first test performed Sunday showed that the patient 44, hospitalized in Madrid, has more viral load, ie no trace of the virus is no longer detected in his body. It should soon be subject to a new test, but his health now knows "a positive development," said the Committee responsible for monitoring the virus in Spain. According to the newspaper El Pais, the patient is fed back for three days, but his lungs were damaged by the disease. It is still in an isolation room.
"I am very happy because today we can say that Teresa overcame the disease," said her husband, Javier Limon.
Senegal and Nigeria freed from the epidemic
In the United States, a country that has experienced the first imported case in the person of Thomas Eric Duncan, the picture is less positive. The Liberian succumbed to the disease on October 8 in Dallas, Texas, after bungling in its management that led to send him home when he had a fever and had declared from a country at risk. Two caregivers have subsequently been contaminated by caring for ill. They are hospitalized in institutions. Relatives of the deceased on the other hand must leave Monday for three weeks of quarantine that was imposed on them, as well as the caregivers who first approached.
If these recent cases have brought the United States and Spain in the category of countries affected by the epidemic, two African countries, Senegal and Nigeria reached earlier by the virus leaving. WHO said Friday that Senegal, which had reported one case now healed, should no longer be considered an affected country. Same Monday for Nigeria, where the epidemic was stopped three months after the arrival of the first patient in the most populous country in Africa. With rapid response, the record is 20 cases, including eight deaths. The epidemic has killed more than 4,500 deaths, mainly in three countries in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
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