{A French nurse who contracted Ebola while volunteering for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Liberia has been cured of the deadly virus, the French health minister said Saturday.}<\/p>\n
The nurse, who has not been identified, “is now cured and has left hospital,” Marisol Touraine said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The first French national to be infected with the virus was airlifted back to France on September 19 and received experimental treatment at a military hospital on the outskirts of Paris.<\/p>\n
Ebola has killed more than 3,300 people in west Africa in the worst-ever outbreak of the disease.<\/p>\n
Touraine authorised the use in France of three experimental drugs for the treatment of Ebola including the antiviral medicine Avigan, or favipiravir, produced by Japanese firm Toyama Chemical, a subsidiary of FujiFilm Holdings.<\/p>\n
The company says the nurse had been given Agivan, which was approved in Japan in March.<\/p>\n
There is no licensed treatment or vaccine for Ebola. Of several prototype treatments in the pipeline, one dubbed ZMapp has been fast-tracked for use, developed by Mapp Biopharmaceutical in California, in conjunction with the US Army.<\/p>\n
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