Two Italian health workers were
placed under quarantine in Lombardy after being repatriated from
Sierra Leone last week, a report said Friday.
The 60-year-old doctor and 30-year-old midwife were flown
home after suspicion they had been exposed to the deadly Ebola
virus during a humanitarian mission to Africa, according to
newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.
Neither doctor presents symptoms. Quarantine is
precautionary.
The doctor and obstetrician worked from June through last
week with the association Medici con l'Africa Cuamm in Pujehun,
Sierra Leone - one of the three African countries worst hit by
the devastating Ebola outbreak.
The pair were exposed to the risk of contagion during their
work due to a breach in health protocol not of their own doing.
Both must remain isolated in their homes until early
November.
Cuamm called the quarantine "standard procedure that one
follows in these cases".
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