Anti-bodies in the plasma transfused from Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly may save the young Dallas nurse's life as reports revealed how the decades-long treatment works.

Brantly, an American Ebola doctor who went to Liberia to help in the war against the outbreak that has taken thousands of lives, had been in the worst of conditions before the end of July.

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However, after he "received a unit of blood from a 14-year-old boy who had survived Ebola because of Dr. Brantly's care," the doctor's condition started to get better.

Several months after he had been cleared of the dreaded virus, the Ebola survivor had shared his fortune to 26-year-old Nina Pham who had contracted the disease after caring for the first Ebola patient in the U.S.

Pham, who was part of the team at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas that treated Thomas Eric Duncan, is now saying that she is "doing well" after receiving a transfusion Brantly's plasma which is believed to contain Ebola-fighting anti-bodies.

Though there had been no scientific evidence to support claims that Brantly's blood can save Pham's life, several others who had been injected with his plasma including fellow Ebola doctor Richard Sacra, and freelance journalist Ashoka Mukpo claimed that the transfusion had worked miracles for them.

Sacra has been released from the hospital and was known to have recovered from the virus while Mukpo said told the Washington Post Tuesday that he is on his way to recovering himself.

Because of this undeniable improvement, experts and health officials are leaning towards deeming the method of treatment as one of the best means to cure Ebola.

"Convalescent serum is high on our list of potential therapies and has been used in other outbreaks," a statement from World Health Organization revealed referring to the plasma from a recovered Ebola patient.

According to reports, the treatment had been nearly as old as the virus itself, explaining that the anti-bodies from a recovered patient may very well aid another patient in producing her own anti-bodies that may fight the virus in her system.

Being the only positive development in the months-long bout against the disease, the treatment does not come without risks as health officials consider problems from the procedure including a possibility of spreading other diseases like HIV or hepatitis C.

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