A French nurse who contracted Ebola infection will be given ‘experimental treatments’.
A French nurse who contracted Ebola infection will be given ‘experimental treatments’ after the country’s health minister authorized them at a Paris hospital. "She is receiving experimental treatments," Marisol Touraine said, adding that these drugs were administered "as soon as she arrived."
A medical plane carrying the young female Doctors Without Borders (MSF) volunteer arrived in France from Liberia overnight.
She was then taken immediately to the Begin military hospital on the outskirts of the capital.
"She was immediately transferred to the hospital in conditions of absolute security and immediately taken into care," Touraine said.
The nurse is "currently in a confinement chamber and has dedicated staff looking after her."
The minister "exceptionally" authorised the importation and use of several experimental drugs to combat the Ebola virus, which has so far killed more than 2,600 people in West Africa.
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The nurse, who has not been identified, is the first French national to be infected with the virus, which causes severe muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhoea and -- in some cases -- unstoppable internal and external bleeding.
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