Italian Ebola doctor 'stable' condition

(ANSA) - Rome, December 9 - The Italian doctor who contracted Ebola while working with a non-governmental organization in Sierra Leone was in "stable" condition on Tuesday, doctors said.
    The patient was still on an external respirator and his prognosis was not made clear, the specialists at the Spallanzani Institute for Infectious Disease added.
    The 50-year-old man was transferred to intensive care late last week after his condition deteriorated with a fever.
    The patient, who had worked for medical-aid NGO Emergency, started treatment with a new experimental medicine brought in from abroad earlier last week.
    As part of the therapy, the patient had also received plasma transfusions from survivors of the disease.