One hundred and forty-six patients have recovered from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also called Doctors Without Border, has said.
MSF, which has established Ebola treatment centres in the three countries, explained that once a patient recovers from the disease, such a patient becomes....
immune to the virus and could continue to live a normal healthy life.
The group also said an Ebola outbreak is considered to end once no new case is reported after 42 days.
In Conakry, the Guinean capital, the MSF said it admitted 232 patients with 124 confirmed Ebola cases.
The group said 64 of them recovered and returned home.
In Gueckedou, also in Guinea, of the 366 patients admitted, 169 were confirmed to have Ebola; 46 recovered and returned home.
In Sierra Leone, MSF said of the 174 confirmed Ebola patients it admitted, 36 recovered and nine were discharged on August 4, after they recovered from the disease.
In 2012, the MSF effectively contained an Ebola outbreak in Uganda by placing a control area around the treatment centre.
The organisation has 676 workers in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
MSF said it would support any effort by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to find a vaccine for the disease.
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