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 The 50-year-old Sicilian contracted Ebola while working for the
humanitarian group Emergency in Sierra Leone, one of the countries
worst hit by the virus.
The Lazzaro Spallanzani infectious diseases unit in Rome said the
patient had to be given respiratory assistance on Thursday evening.
His condition had improved slightly on Wednesday.
The doctor is the only Italian to have been diagnosed with the
haemorrhagic fever, which has killed more than 6,000 of around
17,000 people infected so far, mostly in West Africa, during the
worst outbreak of Ebola on record.
He was transferred to Rome, where he began being treated with an
experimental drug never used before in Italy, and plasma taken from
survivors of the disease.
(Reporting by Antonella Cinelli, writing by Isla Binnie; Editing by
Susan Fenton)
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