U.N. Liberia medic arrives in Germany for
Ebola treatment
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[October 09, 2014]
LEIPZIG Germany (Reuters) - A
medical official with the U.N. Mission in Liberia who tested positive
for Ebola arrived in the German city of Leipzig on Thursday to be
treated at a local clinic with specialist facilities, authorities said.
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The unidentified medic infected in Liberia is the second member of
the U.N. mission, known as UNMIL, to contract the virus. The first
died on Sept. 25. He is the third Ebola patient to arrive in Germany
for treatment.
"The man will be treated on an isolation ward... with strict
security measures," said Dr Iris Minde, head of Leipzig's St Georg
clinic in a statement. "There is no danger of infection for other
patients, relatives, visitors or the public."
The hospital stressed its doctors and carers were fully prepared and
have regular training on how to work in an isolation ward with
highly infectious patients. A Spanish nurse became the first person
to contract Ebola outside of Africa, while caring for a priest who
died of the disease.
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The world's worst outbreak of Ebola on record has killed 3,879
people by Oct. 5, most of them in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone,
according to the latest figures from the World Health Organisation
(WHO).
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A WHO employee who arrived in Germany from Sierra Leone for
treatment last month was released last weekend after successful
treatment at a clinic in Hamburg. Another patient is being treated
in Frankfurt.
(Reporting by Reuters television; Writing by Alexandra Hudson;
Editing by Tom Heneghan)
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