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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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