MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - Spanish nurse Teresa Romero infected with Ebola and currently undergoing treatment said that she plans to continue treating patients with the deadly virus upon recovery, the Spanish ABC newspaper reported Wednesday.
“I have no doubts about treating Ebola-infected patients again. I have antibodies now,” Romero told her husband as quoted by the newspaper.
According to the Spanish medics, Romero’s condition has recently stabilized and she is likely to recover soon.
Romero got infected with the dangerous virus when treating Spanish priest Manuel Garcia Viejo, who caught the disease while assisting patients in Sierra Leone.
On October 10, media reports said the nurse was to receive the experimental drug ZMapp that was responsible for the recovery of two US aid workers earlier in August. Ramos has also been treated with a hyperimmune serum, developed from the blood of a person who has recovered from Ebola, and an antiviral.
According to the WHO, almost 9,000 cases of the Ebola virus had been reported, with the disease killing over 4,400 people so far.
There is currently no officially approved medication for the disease, but several countries are now working on developing a drug to prevent the virus from spreading further.
