A doctor working for
medical-aid NGO Emergency in Sierra Leone has become the first
Italian to contract Ebola during the current outbreak of the
deadly virus. The doctor will land in Italy later on Monday and
will be treated at Rome's Spallanzani Institute, which
specialises in infectious diseases, ANSA sources said. The World
Health Organization (WHO) said earlier this month that some
5,000 people have died following the Ebola outbreak in west
Africa and over 13,000 cases of infection have been confirmed.
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