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UPDATE – Ebola patients leave Emory

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UPDATE – Ebola patients leave Emory

Created by CDC microbiologist Cynthia Goldsmith, this colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion. Photo provided by the CDC.
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Created by CDC microbiologist Cynthia Goldsmith, this colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion.   Photo provided by the CDC.

Created by CDC microbiologist Cynthia Goldsmith, this colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion. Photo provided by the CDC.

CNN is reporting that both patients infected with the Ebola virus being treated in an isolation unit at Emory Hospital will be released today.

An Emory spokesperson told CNN that Dr. Kent Brantley’s blood samples has tested negative for the virus. Brantley and another healthcare worker, Nancy Writebol, were transferred to the hospital from West Africa. Initially, the network reported that Writebol remained hospitalized but later updated its story to say that she’d actually been released on Tuesday, but chose not to comment.

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