Spanish Nurse Infected With Ebola Is Declared Free of Disease

SPANISH NURSE AND NBC CAMERMAN CLEARED OF VIRUS, DALLAS NURSE  PAM'S ' CONDITION UPGRADED TO GOOD. (Three stories)

Freelance TV cameraman Ashoka Mukpo is shown in Liberia in this August photograph. He was declared free of Ebola on Tuesday after undergoing treatment at a hospital in Nebraska.(Photo: Philip Marcelo, AP)

NEW YORK TIMES                            Oct. 21, 2014

MADRID — The Spanish auxiliary nurse who was the first person known to have contracted the Ebola virus outside of Africa was declared cured of the disease on Tuesday, after a second test for the virus in recent days came back negative, according to officials at the hospital where she has been treated since Oct. 7.

The nurse, María Teresa Romero Ramos, 44, was found to be infected after she treated a Spanish missionary at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid who had returned from West Africa with the disease; he died Sept. 25. Ms. Romero and officials at the hospital have suggested that she may have become infected by touching her face with a glove while removing protective gear.

At the Carlos III hospital, Ms. Romero was treated with blood plasma taken from people who had survived Ebola infections, and with an experimental drug as well, officials said, but specific details about her treatment have not been released.

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USA TODAY                                         Oct.  2014

CAMERAMAN DECLARED FREE OF EBOLA

TV cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, evacuated from Liberia after becoming infected with Ebola last month, has been declared free of the virus, his part-time employer NBC News reports.

He will be allowed on Wednesday to leave the bio-containment unit at Nebraska Medical Center, the special infectious disease center where he has been undergoing treatment.

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DALLAS NURSE'S CONDITION IMPROVES.

ASSOCIATED PRESS                          Oct. 21, 2014

The National Institutes of Health says the condition of the first nurse to be diagnosed with Ebola after treating an infected man at a Dallas hospital has been upgraded to good.

The NIH said in a statement posted on its website Tuesday afternoon that Nina Pham's clinical status had been upgraded from fair. The statement said no other information was available.

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