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This therapy was used in one of the Ebola outbreaks that occurred in Kikwit, DRC in 1995, where 8 people diagnosed with Ebola were transfused with blood from convalescent patients. 7 out of the 8 people survived. Ref:

Also; part of the treatment that the American Dr Kent Brantly received was serum from a boy who had survived EVD. Ref:

A form of passive immunization( this had been used in the early treatment of some diseases like measles and scarlet fever, before their vaccines were developed.)