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Sardinian nurse tests positive for Ebola virus

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ROME, May 12 (Xinhua) -- An Italian male nurse with medical NGO Emergency tested positive for the Ebola virus after flowing back to Italy from Sierra Leone, Emergency said in a statement released on Tuesday.
The nurse will be transferred soon from the city of Sassari in Sardinia island, southern Italy, to the Lazzaro Spallanzani hospital in capital Rome, which specializes in infectious diseases.
The man showed the first symptoms of Ebola late on Sunday, the statement said, adding "he used to carry out regular self-monitoring of his conditions, which enabled to act quickly to avoid possible contagion."
Emergency did not release details about the nurse's identity but said he was in a good condition generally.
The nurse was the second Italian to contract Ebola during the current outbreak of the deadly virus in west Africa.
A doctor with the same NGO also contracted the virus while combating the Ebola disease in Sierra Leone last winter and was treated at the same hospital for several weeks before he was declared completely healed.
Ebola, a virus which causes an often fatal illness if untreated, is transmitted to people from wild animals through close contact with blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission.
The current outbreak, first notified more than a year ago, is the largest since the deadly virus was first discovered in 1976 and has claimed over 11,000 lives by the latest count of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Nurse Becomes Italy's Second Ebola Case

An Italian nurse who had recently been working in Sierra Leone with medical charity Emergency has tested positive for Ebola in the country's second case of the virus.

The health ministry said on Tuesday in a statement that the male nurse was in an infectious diseases ward of a hospital at Sassari on the island of Sardinia, awaiting transfer by a specially-equipped air force plane to a Rome clinic that cured Italy's first Ebola victim, a doctor who had also worked for Emergency in Sierra Leone.

The nurse began displaying possible symptoms of the virus on Sunday evening, two days after arriving home from Africa, the ministry said. Tests confirmed he had contracted the disease that has killed more than 4700 people in its latest outbreak in West Africa.

The doctor who was successfully treated at the Lazzaro Spallanzani clinic in Rome was evacuated from Sierra Leone in mid-November.

The 50-year-old left hospital in January following treatment with a combination of experimental drugs and the blood plasma of an Ebola survivor.

-AFP

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Rome: An Italian male nurse working with NGO Emergency tested positive for the Ebola virus after flying back to Italy from Sierra Leone, a media report said.


The nurse will be transferred soon from the city of Sassari in Sardinia island to the the capital`s Lazzaro Spallanzani hospital, which specializes in infectious diseases, Xinhua reported, citing an Emergency statement released on Tuesday.

The man showed the first symptoms of Ebola late on Sunday, the statement said, adding that "he used to carry out regular self-monitoring of his conditions, which enabled to act quickly to avoid possible contagion".

Emergency did not release details about the nurse`s identity but said he was in good condition generally.

The nurse is the second Italian to contract Ebola during the current outbreak of the deadly virus in west Africa.

A doctor with the same NGO also contracted the virus while combating the disease in Sierra Leone last winter and was treated at the same hospital for several weeks before he was declared completely healed.

Ebola, a virus which causes an often fatal illness if untreated, is transmitted to people from wild animals through close contact with blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission.

The current outbreak, first notified more than a year ago, is the largest since the deadly virus was first discovered in 1976 and has claimed over 11,000 lives by the latest count of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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I hope he will heal soon!
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We have forgotten to write that he is fortunately cured by ebola

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Ebola: Sardinian nurse cured of disease, leaves hospital


Ebola: Sardinian nurse cured of disease, leaves hospital
The Italian health ministry said the nurse who worked with medical charity Emergency in Sierra Leone, has been cured and has left hospital.


Rome (AFP) - An Italian nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone with medical charity Emergency has been cured and left hospital on Wednesday, the health ministry announced.

Stefano Marongiu, a male nurse from Sassari, Sardinia, has spent the last month receiving treatment at the Spallanzani infectious diseases clinic.

He was the second Italian to contract the disease after Fabrizio Pulvirenti, a Sicilian doctor who had also worked for Emergency in Sierra Leone.


The doctor, who left hospital in January, was treated at the same clinic with a combination of experimental drugs and the blood plasma of an Ebola survivor.

The health ministry said Marongiu had been treated with drugs sourced overseas but did not reveal further details.

The nurse said he would not rule out another spell working in Africa.

"I've not had time to enjoy my family but I would not exclude a return to the field. If Emergency needs me, I'll be there," he told a press conference.

Ebola has killed at least 11,000 people since its latest outbreak in West Africa started in December 2013.


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