Spanish Nurse Who Beat Ebola to Be Discharged

UPDATE: Spanish nurse's press conference after her release

BBC                                                                                         Nov. 5, 2014

Ms Romero recovered after being given a variety of treatments including blood plasma from survivor Paciencia Melgar.

An antiviral drug was also given to Ms Romero but the hospital was unable to say which method had been successful.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS                                 NOV. 4, 2014
MADRID --A Spanish nursing assistant who recovered from Ebola is to be discharged from a Madrid hospital a month after she was admitted with the virus.

 This Nov. 1, 2014 photo provided by the Madrid’s Carlos III hospital shows Teresa Romero, center, posing for a photo with medical workers and friends after leaving the isolation unit in the Carlos III hospital in Madrid, Spain. Hospital officials say a Spanish nursing assistant who recovered from an Ebola virus infection has left the isolation unit where she was being monitored and moved to a normal room. Teresa Romero tested positive on Oct 6, but was declared cured of the virus 15 days later. She was the first known person to contract the disease outside of West Africa in the latest outbreak. Madrid’s Carlos III hospital said Saturday that Romero, 44, was now being attended by hospital staff that no longer needed to wear protective outfits. (AP Photo)

Carlos III hospital chief Rafael Perez-Santamarina said Teresa Romero will be released later Wednesday.he was the first person known to have contracted the disease outside of West Africa in the latest outbreak.

Hospital doctors said Romero, 44, received various treatments, including blood plasma from an Ebola survivor, but were unable to say if any had been effective.

Romero had treated two Spanish missionaries who died of Ebola in August and September after they were flown back from West Africa.

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