Two Ebola patients in highly developed nations have been declared free of the virus that’s proven so deadly in countries with little to no healthcare infrastructure, highlighting the disparity in treatment for Ebola patients.

“Just got my results,” tweeted 33-year old US News photo-journalist Ashoka Mukpo who was working with NBC News in Liberia when he began to show symptoms.  The network helped airlift him to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where he underwent successful treatment.  He’ll head back home to Rhode Island on Wednesday.  “3 consecutive days negative.  Ebola free and feeling so blessed.  I fought and won, with lots of help.  Amazing feeling.”

Nurse Maria Teresa Romero Ramos of Madrid, Spain is also officially in the clear.  Doctors declared her free of the virus, weeks after being infected while she treated one of two missionary priests who got sick in Africa and were airlifted back to Spain.  Neither of them survived, making Teresa Romero not only the first person to contract Ebola outside Africa, but also the first to survive it in Spain. 

It’s not clear when she will be discharged from Carlos III Hospital.  But when she gets out, she will find a new movement of nurses and healthcare workers demanding more protection from Ebola by the government.  And as of early Tuesday, she hadn’t yet been told that officials had her dog Excaliber put down to make sure he didn’t infect anyone with Ebola (even though there has never been a documented case of canine to human Ebola transfer).

Meanwhile, more than 4,500 people are dead in the West African Ebola Epidemic, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea - three countries with weak healthcare systems even before the first cases started popping up from December 2013 through March 2014.