Ebola-Infected WHO Staff Sent to Hamburg
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Jumat, 19 Oktober 2018 19:24 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A staff of the World Health Organisation (WHO) who caught the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone will be evacuated to Hamburg, Germany, to undergo medical treatments, said a spokesperson in the city.
Rico Schmidt, a spokesman for the Hamburg's Health Senate said that the patient is due to arrive on Wednesday evening to undergo treatments at the tropical medicine institute at the Hamburg University Clinic.
In Geneva, WHO said that the Senegalese medic is an expert epidemiologist.
The deadly Ebola virus is transmitted via direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected patients, and has claimed the lives of at least 120 medical staffs.
WHO had dispatched 400 of its own staffs, along with experts from its' partner organisations to help fight the Ebola epidemic - whose symptoms include high fever and haemorrhages - which has ravaged Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Nigeria.
A medical laboratory in Sierra Leone was closed down on Tuesday, after the Senegalese medic became infected with the virus.
At least 1,427 people have died and 2,615 infected, after the deadly outbreak began in the remote Guinean jungle in March, according to Reuters reports.
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