{"id":605,"date":"2014-08-22T07:51:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T07:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=605"},"modified":"2014-08-22T07:51:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T07:51:45","slug":"two-us-aid-workers-survive-leave-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Two US aid workers survive, leave hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-606\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cover-360x192.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-606\" alt=\"\u2022 Ebola survivor, Dr. Kent Brantly hugs his doctor, Bruce Ribner, after a news conference announcing his release with another survivor, Nancy Writebol, in Atlanta, Georgia in United States...on Thursday. Photos: AFP\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cover-360x192-300x160.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cover-360x192-300x160.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cover-360x192.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2022 Ebola survivor, Dr. Kent Brantly hugs his doctor, Bruce Ribner, after a news conference announcing his release with another survivor, Nancy Writebol, in Atlanta, Georgia in United States&#8230;on Thursday. Photos: AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An American medical doctor, Dr. Kent Brantly and another aid worker , Nancy Writebol have been discharged from the quarantine unit of the Emory University Hospital, United States of America on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Brantly and Writebol, who were infected with the Ebola virus while volunteering to treat infected patients in Liberia, have been certified virus-free by experts at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>They are the first Americans to survive Ebola.They were also the first patients to have received the experimental Ebola serum, ZMapp, a drug that may have saved their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria has also discharged five Ebola patients this week. They were however managed with routine drugs available in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Director, Emory\u2019s Infectious Disease Unit, Dr. Bruce Ribner, in a statement according to the CNN on Thursday, stated that they are now free to go to their normal lives, as they pose no threat of infection to the public.<\/p>\n<p>An elated Brantly at a news conference on Thursday said, \u201cToday is a miraculous day. I am thrilled to be alive, to be well and to be reunited with my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ribner said at the news conference, \u201cWe are tremendously pleased with Dr. Brantly and Mrs. Writebol\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we learned in caring for them will help advance the world\u2019s understanding of how to treat Ebola infections and help, hopefully, to improve survival in other parts of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American medical doctor, Dr. Kent Brantly and another aid worker , Nancy Writebol have been discharged from the quarantine unit of the Emory University Hospital, United States of America on Thursday. Brantly and Writebol, who were infected with the Ebola virus while volunteering to treat infected patients in Liberia, have been certified virus-free by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cover-360x192.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-9L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}