has tested positive for the deadly Ebola infection in Liberia and is
to be flown to the Netherlands for treatment.
The University Medical Center Utrecht will quarantine the soldier at a
"calamity unit," The Nation reports.
According to a Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman, Inge Freriksen, the
peace-worker will be flown to the capital, Amsterdam, and then carried
to the city of Utrecht.
The UN mission declared Nigerian soldier had tested positive for the
dreaded disease a day earlier.
The infected soldier had been a member of the United Nations Mission
in Liberia (UNMIL), which has been stationed in Liberia since 2003 to
restore peace and stability to the violence-ravaged country after two
deadly civil wars.
This is the third case of deadly virus among mission staff, according
to Karin Landgren, a top UN envoy in the country. The previous two
cases were fatal.
The mission has so far known 16 people who came into contact with the
trooper, and they have been isolated, she said.
Areas the Nigerian visited while symptomatic have been decontaminated.
He will be the first Ebola patient treated in the Netherlands.
Only recently, doctors have announced that the first test of Ebola
vaccine in human shows it's safe and appears to be working as
designed.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Nigeria officially free
of Ebola on October 20 after six weeks (42 days) with no new cases.
A small outbreak, with a total of twenty cases, occurred in Nigeria
during this year.
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