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26 Aug, 2014

Takes ZMapp

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Pooley is treated with the experimental ZMapp Ebola drug. Dr Michael Jacobs, clinical director of infectious diseases at the Royal Free hospital in Hampstead, north London:

We had the opportunity to give him the ZMapp treatment. It is an experimental medicine, we made that absolutely clear in our discussions with him.

9 Sep, 2014

Plans to return to Sierra Leone

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Pooley says he wants to return to west Africa following his recovery:

So while I’m happy to be recovered and alive, there’s a lot of stuff on my mind with what’s going on back there. It would be relatively safe for me to go back and work there, and it’s really the least I could do having received all this amazing care and have people look after me and potentially save my life. It’s the least I could do to go back and return the favour to some other people, even just for a little while.  The more help they get the less chance there is they get sick. If they get sick they are just going to end up in a ward in Kenema with less chance than I had.

He says he has ‘huge gratitude’ for Cameron’s role in his recovery, but calls for more support from leaders:

It’s a global problem and it needs global level leadership so Obama and Cameron … need to show some more leadership on this issue … Sierra Leone needs lots of international health-care workers working with big NGOs like MSF and Red Cross. All of that needs to be increased.

12 Sep, 2014

Flies to Atlanta

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Pooley is issued an emergency passport and flies to Atlanta to provide a blood transfusion to a U.S. doctor who has contracted the virus. As an Ebola survivor, his blood carries antibodies that can be carried over with a transfusion.