Good news on the Ebola front came out of Liberia on Thursday when the country announced that the last known patient with the often-fatal virus has been released from a treatment center.
ABC News noted that Beatrice Yardolo was released from a Chinese treatment unit after spending 16 days there and is now Ebola-free.
The 58-year-old woman thanked the doctors at the treatment center, built by the Chinese government, for saving her life.
“I am very grateful to the Chinese treatment center and the Almighty God that
I lived to see this day,” Yardolo said, according to the Los Angeles Times. “I did not know I would make it.”
Yardolo believes she caught the virus from her son, a dentist who contracted the disease from the bodily fluids of patients. She lost three of her children to Ebola.
The deadly Ebola outbreak began early last year in Guinea and since then has crippled West Africa. Most of the nearly 10,000 deaths have all occurred in that region.