Guinean
who brought Ebola to Senegal recovers from virus
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[September 10, 2014]
DAKAR (Reuters) - The first case of
the Ebola virus detected in Senegal, a 21-year-old student who arrived
from neighboring Guinea last month, has recovered from the deadly
disease, a senior official said on Wednesday.
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"We did a first blood test on Friday and a second 48 hours later and
both of them came back negative," Papa Amadou Diack, Senegal's
director of health, told Reuters. "This is very good news for the
patient and for the country."
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday there were two other
suspected cases of Ebola in Senegal, but no other confirmed ones.
The world's worst ever outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever has killed
at least 2,296 people, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
(Reporting by Diadie Ba; Writing by Daniel Flynn Editing by Jeremy
Gaunt)
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