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Empresas y finanzas

First French Ebola patient leaves hospital


    PARIS (Reuters) - A volunteer nurse who was the first French national to contract Ebola has left hospital after being successfully treated for the disease, France's health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

    The volunteer caught the disease while working for charity Medecins Sans Frontieres in Liberia and was evacuated to France last month.

    The person was admitted to a military hospital just outside Paris and received an experimental treatment.

    The worst outbreak on record of Ebola, a contagious, haemorrhagic fever, has killed more than 3,400 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, according to the World Health Organisation.

    The United States is facing a first Ebola case after a man who travelled recently from Liberia to Texas was diagnosed with the disease earlier this week.

    (Reporting by Gus Trompiz; Editing by Hugh Lawson)