An American doctor, Dr. Kent Brantly who contracted Ebola treating victims of the deadly virus in Liberia has recovered and will be discharged on Thursday by the Atlanta hospital that treated him with an experimental drug, his charity has disclosed. he was given ZMapp, a drug used on a handful of patients in the West African outbreak and produced by U.S.-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical. He and U.S. missionary Nancy Writebol have been treated with the drug since being evacuated from Liberia earlier this month. Mapp says, the drug have been exhausted.
Three African doctors, who are also treated with ZMapp in Liberia, have shown remarkable signs of improvement, according to Liberian Information Minister Lewis Brown.
"I have marveled at Dr. Brantly’s courageous spirit as he has fought this horrible virus with the help of the highly competent and caring staff at Emory University Hospital," Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan's Purse, said in a statement.
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