PARIS, October 4 (RIA Novosti) – A French volunteer nurse of the international organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF), who was diagnosed with Ebola in Liberia, has been safely cured of illness, French Health Minister Marisol Touraine said in a statement on Saturday.
The young woman already left the military hospital Begin near Paris, where she had received an experimental treatment using Japanese medicine, the French minister said.
The nurse was the first French citizen to be diagnosed with Ebola. On September 16, at the first sign of malaise, she was placed in quarantine. On September 19, she was transported back home.
According to the World Health Organization, the Ebola virus death toll has exceeded 3,400 with Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone hit the hardest. Nigeria and Senegal are among the other African nations with registered cases of the disease. In addition, a Liberian national has been hospitalized in the United States with confirmed Ebola diagnosis.
There is no officially approved cure for the virus. However, several nations, including Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan are working on a vaccine.
