Wikipedia's page on "Ebola Virus Disease" states:
No specific treatment for the virus is available.
Wikipedia's page on "Ebola Virus" also states:
There is no cure for Ebola, but if people get care quickly from doctors and nurses at a hospital, more of them live.
So how are there news articles telling us of people with Ebola who have been cured?
We have a myriad of news articles describing people in the U.S and around the world. afflicted with Ebola that have now been cured:
- Dallas nurse Amber Vinson
- Recovered
- Dallas nurse Nina Pham
- Cured
- Nebraskan journalist Ashoka Mukpo
- Cured
- American missionary Nancy Writebol
- Cured/Recovered? (See link above)
- Dr. Kent Brantly
- Cured/Recovered? (See link above)
- Spanish nurse assitant Teresa Romero
- Recovered
- Unnamed French nurse
- Cured
Is there really no treatment for the disease? Then how are these people surviving? How are they getting treated? I am especially confused by the wording the articles use. Some use the word "surviving" to describe some people's incidents with the disease, which would imply that they had not been cured, but some articles also state they "were cured", which would imply there exists a cure for Ebola.