PARIS (Reuters) – A volunteer nurse who was the first French national to contract Ebola has left hospital after being successfully treated for the disease, France’s health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
The volunteer caught the disease while working for charity Medecins Sans Frontieres in Liberia and was evacuated to France last month.
The person was admitted to a military hospital just outside Paris and received an experimental treatment.
The worst outbreak on record of Ebola, a contagious, hemorrhagic fever, has killed more than 3,400 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, according to the World Health Organisation.
The United States is facing a first Ebola case after a man who traveled recently from Liberia to Texas was diagnosed with the disease earlier this week.
(Reporting by Gus Trompiz; Editing by Hugh Lawson)