Nigerian peacekeeper cured of Ebola in Netherlands
A Nigerian United Nations peacekeeper infected with Ebola and brought to the Netherlands for treatment has been cured, the Dutch authorities said on Friday.
“ The Nigerian patient who was admitted on December 6 has been cured of Ebola , ” the Dutch public health institute RIVM said in a statement.
The soldier was infected while working as a peacekeeper battling the deadly disease in Liberia.
He was flown to the Netherlands at the request of the World Health Organisation in a specially equipped plane and treated at the university hospital in central city Utrecht.
He was the first Ebola patient to be treated in the Netherlands and will stay at a military hospital until he can return home , the RIVM said.
Ebola has killed more than 6, 900 people , almost all of them in west Africa.
Liberia tops the number of fatalities at 3 ,290 deaths but Sierra Leone earlier this month overtook it as the country with the most infections.
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