American Ebola patient's condition improves at NIH Bethesda

[muriel_volestrangler]

From 2 days ago, but I couldn't see it posted:

Doctors say an American health care worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in a Sierra Leone treatment unit has improved to serious condition at the National Institutes of Health.

The agency announced Thursday that the patient's status improved from critical condition. He is being treated at the NIH's hospital in Bethesda.

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/03/american-who-contracted-ebola-improves-in-serious-condition-112641.html

And the British nurse who contracted it around the same time has been released, after successful treatment:

British military nurse successfully treated for Ebola

Cpl Anna Cross was diagnosed while working in Sierra Leone this month. The 25-year-old from Cambridge was the first Ebola patient anywhere in the world to be given the experimental drug MIL 77, and has now been discharged from the Royal Free hospital in London.
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Cross explained that she had been diagnosed by one of the military doctors whom “she knew really well”. She said it had been “hard for a few hours and then something in my mind just kicked in as it does in difficult situations and it said ‘I have a job to do’, which is to get myself back well, and I started to really focus on the people around me.”

She said she couldn’t deal with giving the news to her family, however, and left it to the military to inform them. She said she cried when she found out she was free of the virus, and added that her family were “thrilled” at her recovery.

Cross said she had eaten strawberries to help her through her illness. She added that she had occupied herself in isolation with an iPad the hospital gave her, and that she was grateful for the long career of David Attenborough, whose documentaries she had been watching.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/british-military-nurse-infected-with-ebola-has-been-discharged-from-hospital

[uppityperson]

1. Thank you, I'd read about the nurse but not the other person. Good luck to them both

glad they are improving.

[greatlaurel]

2. Thank you for the updates for these people. Glad they are recovering.

The fact that the news media in the US is ignoring ebola now that the election is over is just another example of how the media is being being used by right wing to manipulate the American voters who do not pay enough attention to how they are manipulated.