A Nigerian United Nations soldier contracted with Ebola in Liberia and flown to the Netherlands for treatment has made a full recovery from the ailment, according to the Dutch officials.
Tests have shown the man is no longer contagious and that he can be moved to the military hospital in Utrecht where he will stay until he can return home.
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“The Nigerian patient who was admitted on December 6 has been cured of Ebola,” the Dutch public health institute RIVM said in a statement.The soldier was treated in a special section of Utrecht University teaching hospital set aside to treat foreign health workers who had become contracted with the virus.
The Nigerian soldier was serving with UN peacekeeping forces in Liberia and was involved in the security of doctors treating Ebola patients.
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He was the first Ebola patient to be treated in the Netherlands.
Nigeria had 20 cases of Ebola after a Liberian-American man named Patrick Sawyer flew into Lagos and fell down at the airport. Health care workers treating Sawyer were infected, and as it spread it ultimately killed eight people, a low number next to the thousands of cases and deaths in other countries. Nigeria’s health system is considered more robust, but there was significant concern from experts that a case would pop up in one of the country’s dense-populated slums and catch fire.
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