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                         French Ebola Patient Recovers

   by VOA News

   The health ministry of France says a French nurse who contracted Ebola
   in Liberia while working for Doctors Without Borders has recovered.

   She was treated at a hospital near Paris.

   Separately Saturday, a hospital in the German city of Hamburg said it
   has successfully treated and discharged a Senegalese scientist who
   contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone.

   The World Health Organization says the current outbreak of the disease
   - the worst on record - has infected more than 7,400 people in Liberia,
   Sierra Leone and Guinea, including hundreds of doctors, nurses and
   other health workers. More than 3,400 of the victims have died.

   The outbreak has raised fears around the world.

   The Pentagon says it could deploy as many as 4,000 troops to help
   contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. President Obama said
   initially that 3,000 would go to fight the disease. About 200 U.S.
   soldiers are already in Liberia, setting up headquarters for the U.S.
   mission, which will train health care workers and set up medical
   facilities.

   The Ebola virus is spread by direct contact with the bodily fluids of
   infected patients. It causes vomiting, diarrhea and in the worst cases,
   uncontrollable bleeding.

   There is no known cure, but an American doctor diagnosed with the virus
   was found to be Ebola-free after taking an experimental drug in August.

   The U.S. had its own Ebola scare this week when a Liberian national who
   had traveled from Liberia to Dallas, Texas was diagnosed on Sunday.

   The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
   Tom Frieden, said Saturday that none of the nine people who had direct
   contact with the Dallas patient have shown symptoms.  He said they are
   being monitored along with another 40 people who may have had contact
   with him.  He said the CDC has had inquiries about 100 potential Ebola
   cases in the United States since the case in Dallas was confirmed, and
   none of them have been positive for Ebola.

   Meanwhile, an infected U.S. cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia
   will arrive in the U.S. Monday. Ashoka Mukpo's father says his son will
   be treated at a facility in Omaha, Nebraska.


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