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Italian doctor contracts Ebola

Italian doctor contracts Ebola

| | 24 Nov 2014, 12:02 pm
Rome, Nov 24: A Italian doctor, who was working for medical-aid NGO Emergency in Sierra Leone, has contracted the deadly Ebola, media reports said.

 The doctor became the first Italian to contract Ebola.

"The doctor was scheduled to land in Italy later on Monday and will be treated at Rome\'s Spallanzani Institute, which specialises in infectious diseases," ANSA news agency reported.