British Ebola patient discharged

William Pooley, the first British National who tested positive to the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone on August 23rd has been discharged from the Royal Free Hospital in London. He was discharged today September 3rd.

William Pooley, 29, has been treated in a special isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He was given the experimental drug ZMapp and has praised the "world class" care at the hospital. Continue...

He is unsure when he became infected, but started feeling sick and needed a blood test. The volunteer nurse was transported from Sierra Leone to England on August 24th, a day after he tested positive. 

  

"In the face of quite likely a horrible death, they're continuing to work all day, every day helping sick people, it's amazing."

He said it had felt "natural" to go and help in West Africa, that he had no regrets and was "more committed than ever to nursing".

Mr Pooley is heading back to Eyke in Suffolk with his family this afternoon.

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