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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ONE hundred and forty-six patients have recovered from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also called Doctors Without Border, has said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MSF, which has established Ebola treatment centres in the three countries, explained that once a patient recovers from the disease, such a patient becomes immune to the virus and could continue to live a normal healthy life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The group also said an Ebola outbreak is considered to end once no new case is reported after 42 days.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Conakry, the Guinean capital, the MSF said it admitted 232 patients with 124 confirmed Ebola cases.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The group said 64 of them recovered and returned home.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Gueckedou, also in Guinea, of the 366 patients admitted, 169 were confirmed to have Ebola; 46 recovered and returned home.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Sierra Leone, MSF said of the 174 confirmed Ebola patients it admitted, 36 recovered and nine were discharged on August 4, after they recovered from the disease.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2012, the MSF effectively contained an Ebola outbreak in Uganda by placing a control area around the treatment centre.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The organisation has 676 workers in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MSF said it would support any effort by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to find a vaccine for the disease.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It said: “MSF welcomes the steps the WHO is taking to adopt exceptional regulatory procedures in the face of an exceptionally grave Ebola epidemic. MSF is keen that its patients benefit from any treatment that shows promise, and will continue to work with the WHO and other organisations to support an appropriate acceleration of procedure for any treatment that is considered a good candidate for a medical trial.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The responsibility for selection of a treatment and the definition of the ethical framework for this will be in the hands of the WHO and the ministries of Health of the countries where the epidemic has spread.”</span></div>
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