A British nurse who recovered from Ebola after being given the experimental drug Zmapp has left hospital in London.<br /><br />William Pooley, 29, told reporters at a news conference he thought he had been fortunate.<br /><br />“I was very lucky in several ways,” he said. “Firstly in the standard of care that I received, which is a world apart from what people are receiving in West Africa at the moment despite lot of organisations’ best efforts.<br /><br />“The other difference to a lot of Ebola cases (is) that my symptoms never progressed to the worst stages of the disease. I had some unpleasant symptoms but nothing compared to some of the worst of the disease.”<br /><br />The volunteer nurse was flown back to Britain on August 24 from Sierra Leone where he had been working. <br /><br />“Following 10 days of successful treatment in the high level isolation unit – the only one in the UK – Mr Pooley is being discharged from the Royal Free Hospital today,” the hospital said in a statement on its website.<br /><br />Two Americans who were given Zmapp also recovered.<br /><br />Governments and aid organisations have scrambled to contain the disease, which according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) has killed more than 1,500 in West Africa since March.
