Liberia's president will not seek to extend the state of emergency declared in August in response to Ebola as conditions improve there, although a nighttime curfew will remain in effect.

The freelance journalist/cameraman who was working with NBC and Dr Nancy Snyderman, Ashoka Mukpo, published a short essay about his experience and recovery from Ebola. It's a Wall Street Journal article and may not be viewable freely for long, but I was able to read it through Google News.

"I Got Ebola and Survived"
http://online.wsj.com/articles/i-got-ebola-and-survived-1415894355

Arney,
Interesting article, thanks for posting.

An interesting article about Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) aka Doctors Without Borders. It covers their involvement at the pointy end of the spear in the current Ebola outbreak as well as some organizational history.

This is a first person account of Dr. Ada Igonoh's experience with Ebola. She attended to Patrick Sawyer, the first Ebola patient in Nigeria who had flown in from Liberia and subsequently come down with Ebola herself. It's an inspiring read. Her faith and her determination to be a survivor are a testament to her strength of character.

Earlier today, I had posted an article about the importance of staying hydrated to give the body the chance to fight the virus, and Dr Igonoh's account also mentions numerous times her determination to drink and drink to stay hydrated. And survive, she did.

I had been wondering about how the relatively large contingent of Cuban health workers had been doing, most of them working in Sierra Leone. The first Cuban healthcare worker has contracted Ebola, a doctor, and was transported to a special ward in Geneva, Switzerland, where he is stable and his fever has come down.

It's not clear at what stage his disease is in, and whether he is "over the hump" already or whether worse is yet to come.

I've got to hand it to these folks, these Cuban workers volunteer for six month tours of direct patient care which exposes them to many chances to be infected over such a long assignment. Compare that to the typical 4 week assignments of MSF volunteers (and I think that 4 weeks also includes time spent training, too). And they volunteered back before most Western Ebola patients were recovering from the disease, so at that time, they probably considered the possibility of contracting Ebola to be almost a death sentence.