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American doctor cured of Ebola meets President Barack Obama

Aboard Air Force One (AFP) - An American doctor cured of Ebola met President Barack Obama Tuesday, as the US leader hammered out a strategy to curtail the deadly epidemic ravaging west Africa.

Kent Brantly was infected with Ebola while working as an obstetrician in Liberia and was repatriated to an American hospital, where he was treated with the experimental drug, ZMapp.

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