delivery of Ebola patients on 08.27.2014 (archive picture)

posting of Ebola patients on 08.27.2014 (Archive) | © George Wendt / dpa

The first treated in Germany Ebola patient has left the hospital healthy. “He’s fine, and he is no longer infectious for many days. We are very pleased for him that he can now return to his homeland,” it said in a statement of the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE). The dismissal took place therefore on Friday.

A native of Senegal man was infected, according to the World Health Organization during use in a laboratory in Sierra Leone. He was taken to UKE with a Spezialjet for treatment on 27 August.

The University Hospital is able to provide one of nine German specialty treatment centers, patients with highly infectious diseases such as Ebola. They have specially trained personnel and isolation. There are decontamination locks, permanent vacuum and special air filters ensure that no pathogens escape.

Origin of Ebola?

His name carries the Ebola virus after a River foothills of the Congo . 1976, the director of a mission school in the jungle village Yambuku in Zaire had bought (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) with a colleague on a trip on the banks of the Ebola River a freshly killed monkeys .

bushmeat was then, as now on the menu of the locals. A few days later, both men were dead. During the weeks it ill in Yambuku 318 people, 280 died. In the same year the same disease occurred in neighboring Sudan :., Where the Ebola virus killed 151 of 284 patients in whom the infection was detected

The fact that earlier in the former Zaire existed , showed in 1977 that time the pathogen was detected in the