Ebola patient getting plasma

(ANSA) - Rome, November 27 - The Italian doctor who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone is being treated with a therapy that uses plasma from a convalescent, Rome's Spallanzani said on Thursday. Spallanzani doctors told a press conference that the patient, who got the deadly virus while working for the medical-aid NGO Emergency, started the therapy on Wednesday after returning from Africa on Tuesday. They said that the plasma arrived from Spain "thanks to a chain of support and solidarity from the institutions, the scientific community, the pharmaceutical companies and the transport firms".