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 Rico Schmidt, spokesman for the Hamburg Health Senate, said the
patient would arrive later on Wednesday and be treated at Hamburg
university clinic's tropical medicine institute. The WHO in Geneva
said the patient was a Senegalese epidemiologist.
One of the deadliest diseases known to man, Ebola is transmitted by
contact with body fluids and the current outbreak has killed at
least 120 healthcare workers.
The WHO has deployed nearly 400 of its own staff and partner
organizations to fight the epidemic of the highly contagious
hemorrhagic fever, which has struck Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea
and Nigeria.
On Tuesday, it said it had shut a laboratory in Sierra Leone after a
Senegalese medic there became infected.
At least 1,427 people have died and 2,615 have been infected since
the disease was detected deep in the forests of southeastern Guinea
in March.
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(Reporting by Reuters television, writing by Alexandra Hudson;
Editing by Crispian Balmer)
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