Last Ebola Patient in Liberia Leaves Treatment Ward
The final Ebola patient in Liberia is back home and Ebola-free.
Beatrice Yardolo, 58, spent 16 days in a Chinese Ebola treatment unit, but she returned home today, singing and dancing while her husband looked on and cried. He told ABC News he was so happy that it was overwhelming.
“Words are inadequate to even express how I feel,” Steve Yardolo, 61, told ABC News, stopping at times to stare at his wife in awe. “If people could see the inner part of a mind, of an inner being, they would have seen the happiness in me.”
The Yardolo family caught the deadly virus from their son, who had been working in another Ebola treatment clinic. Three of their children died in January and February, Yardolo told ABC News. In the days after her foster daughter died, she started to have Ebola symptoms and decided she needed to go to the Ebola treatment unit.