Ebola-stricken doctor improves

(ANSA) - Rome, December 3 - The condition of an Italian doctor who contracted Ebola while fighting the epidemic in Sierra Leone has improved, Rome's Spallanzani Institute for Infectious Diseases said Wednesday.
    The 50-year-old patient's fever has broken, doctors said. The Institute added that the patient, who contracted the deadly virus while working for medical-aid NGO Emergency, has started treatment with a new experimental medicine brought in from abroad.
    As part of the therapy, the patient has also received plasma transfusions from survivors of the disease.