Paris, Oct 28 (IANS/EFE) Dozens of medical personnel who took care of a French nurse while she was being treated for the Ebola virus disease have finished their observation period and are free of the virus, French health officials said Tuesday.
French Health Minister Marisol Touraine told a television channel that the 70 healthcare workers ended their quarantine last weekend and had been declared disease free.
The nurse worked for Doctors Without Borders and contracted Ebola in Liberia.
After she showed symptoms of the virus in September, she tested positive, and was treated at a hospital on the outskirts of the French capital and eventually recovered.
Touraine said that while the risk of further Ebola cases in France was a possibility, medical authorities have been preparing for that eventuality since the beginning of the epidemic.
--IANS/EFE
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