WHO staffer with Ebola taken to Germany for treatment
Berlin (AFP) - A World Health
Organization (WHO) employee who has contracted Ebola arrived in Germany
Wednesday, the first patient with the virus to be treated in the
country, officials said.
A
plane carrying the patient -- a Senegalese epidemiologist who was
infected in Sierra Leone -- touched down at the airport of the northern
city of Hamburg and was to be taken to a hospital isolation ward.
A
convoy of police and fire brigade vehicles was to guard the specially
equipped ambulance on its way to the University Hospital
Hamburg-Eppendorf, which specialises in treating contagious diseases.
A press conference was scheduled at the hospital for 1200 GMT.
The
WHO had in July asked for another of its employees to be treated in the
hospital, but the infected health worker died soon after.
The
lethal tropical virus which reemerged in west Africa early this year
has since infected more than 2,600 people and killed 1,427.
Liberia
has been worst hit with 624 registered deaths. Guinea, where the
disease was first discovered, has reported 406 deaths, Sierra Leone 392
and Nigeria five, the WHO said on Friday.
The
UN body said on Monday that more than 120 health workers across west
Africa had died during the "unprecedented" outbreak, and more than 240
had been infected.
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