A British army reservist who contracted Ebola while working as a volunteer nurse in Sierra Leone has fully recovered after becoming the first patient in the world to receive an experimental new treatment.
Anna Cross, 25, was discharged from the Royal Free Hospital in London where she was taken earlier after being evacuated from west Africa on a military plane. "
"Anna is the first patient in the world to have received a new special treatment for Ebola, MIL 77," "The treatment went very well, it caused no side effects that we could elicit."
The new treatment was produced in China and was similar to ZMapp, a cocktail of three antibodies that cling to the virus and inhibit its reproduction.
Cross, who works as a nurse in the state-run National Health Service, was exposed to the virus while treating patients but said she did not know exactly when this might have happened.
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