The American doctor, Dr Kent Brantly, who was receiving treatment at Emory’s University Hospital after contracting Ebola is scheduled to be released today, August 21, 2014.
The doctor who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia on a humanitarian mission will be officially discharged from the the hospital, after successfully recuperating from the disease while on a regiment of the experimental ZMapp drug.
Two blood tests done within a two day window have been conducted on Dr Kent Brantly for the virus, but they have all come out as being negative for Ebola. There is however a minuscule likelihood that remnants of the virus could be in his sperm for three months.
News of his release will undoubtedly bring hope to the families of all the patients currently on a ZMapp regimen.
The Ebola virus is spread via direct contact with infected bodily fluids, like blood, sweat and feces of hosts of the virus.
This strand of Ebola that has spawned the West African has a 60% mortality rate and has also killed over 1300 people
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