(ANSA) - Aosta, October 31 - A doctor in the northwestern
Italian town of Quart was notified Friday that he was being
placed under precautionary quarantine after returning from
Sierra Leone where he treated hospital patients for one month.
The doctor landed in Malpensa airport Thursday afternoon
and reached the Val d'Aosta town by train.
He had treated patients in a hospital run by the Italian
NGO Emergency.
The 21-day isolation is being imposed on the doctor by the
local authorities to prevent the risk of the spread of the
deadly Ebola virus, which has been blazing a path of carnage
across Sierra Leone among other Western African countries.
"It seems excessive to me," the doctor told ANSA regarding
the prevention procedure.
Italian doctor in Ebola quarantine
Medic took train ride after returning from Sierra Leone