Ebola: Infected WHO Employee To Be Flown To Hamburg For Treatment

An employee of the World Health Organisation (WHO) who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone will be flown to the German city of Hamburg for treatment, a spokesman for the Hamburg Health Senate , Rico Schmidt, has said.

Schmidt 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.

The WHO has deployed nearly 400 of its own staff and partner organisations 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.