The 29-year-old has returned to Sierra Leone, where he caught the infection, to begin his second spell treating people infected by the virus.
I had a bronchial infection as well, and finally his doctor said he was going to reserve a room for him in a nursing home.
Catherine Cook, the hospital's infection control nurse, said the gel should be applied "before you touch a patient and after you touch a patient to disinfect your hands".
And as many people with respiratory tract infections don't need antibiotics in the first place, because the infection is not actually caused by bacteria, stopping them is perfectly safe.
Doctors vary in the length of antibiotic regimes they prescribe, with five-day courses for urinary tract infection still being used even though the evidence shows that two to three days is sufficient for an uncomplicated infection.
We've seen in the US, although they peaked many weeks ago, that the level of infection in some of the states is still quite widespread.
It is reminiscent of tuberculosis sanatoria built in Victorian times well away from cities, both to give the patients the benefits of nature and to protect everybody else from infection.
The most serious eye infection is keratitis, caused by bacteria and other organisms that affect the cornea – the transparent dome-shaped structure at the front of the eye.
For one, dead bodies can be dangerous if not handled properly, causing disease and infection.
Although the Wellcome Unit closed in 1992, its legacy continues at the Instituto Evandro Chagas, now a hub for visiting scientists researching all aspects of Leishmania and other parasites, from ecology to epidemiology, immunology and the genetics of host responses to infection.
Previous research, based on marks on the mummies' bones left by TB infection, found that incidence of the disease in Vac surged from about 1760.
