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First Italian Ebola patient to land in Rome early Tuesday

Doctor scheduled to arrive aboard military jet

Redazione Ansa

(see related) (ANSA) - Rome, November 24 - The first Italian to contract Ebola while working in Sierra Leone is expected to land at around 4 a.m. local time Tuesday at the military airport of Pratica di Mare near Rome, military sources said on Monday.
    The patient, a doctor working for medical-aid NGO Emergency in Sierra Leone, will be travelling on board an Italian Air Force KC 767 jet with medical personnel, sources said.
    The craft has already left Pratica di Mare, the sources said.
    The man, whose identity has not been revealed to protect his privacy, will be treated at Rome's Spallanzani Institute which specializes in infectious diseases.
   

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