British Nurse Recovers from Ebola

A British nurse infected with Ebola has been released from the hospital after recovering from the virus.

The Royal Free London Hospital said Wednesday that William Pooley's 10 days of treatment included the experimental drug ZMapp.

He was taken to the hospital last month after contracting Ebola while working in Sierra Leone.

An Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 1,500 people and infected at least 3,000 this year in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal.

Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday the world is losing the battle against Ebola, and warned the deadly virus will not be stopped unless wealthy nations dispatch specialized biological disaster response teams to West Africa.

The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden, said the window of opportunity to fight the disease is "closing" and that the outbreak is the world's first Ebola epidemic.

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