A Spanish nurse's assistant who caught Ebola while caring for a patient is to be discharged Wednesday after 30 days in the hospital, medical officials said, reports GHN based on CNN.
Teresa Romero Ramos is now clear of the virus, Dr. Jose Ramon Arribas told a news conference in Madrid, flanked by other hospital personnel. "Everyone can be assured that there is no danger whatsoever of her being contagious," he said.
Romero has spent the past month at the Carlos III Hospital in Madrid, the same hospital where she contracted the illness while helping to care for an infected missionary who had been brought back from West Africa.
She chose not to speak at the news conference for personal reasons, said the hospital's director general, Dr. Rafael Perez-Santamarina.
Ramon said that through Romero's case the hospital had learned many lessons about the treatment of patients with Ebola and how to protect the staff caring for them.
Romero was the first person to be infected with Ebola outside West Africa in the current outbreak. Authorities announced October 19that tests showed that Romero no longer had Ebola but she remained in the hospital while further tests were carried out and she recuperated.