Doctor is Italy's first case of Ebola

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014

ROME (AFP) - An Italian doctor has contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and is being repatriated for treatment, the health ministry said Monday.

The ministry said the doctor, the first Italian to contract the disease, would arrive in Rome late Monday or early Tuesday and be hospitalised at the Lazzaro Spallanzani national institute for infectious diseases.