Italy’s First Ebola Patient Arrives in Rome

Published at 1:13 pm, November 25, 2014

iStock/Thinkstock(ROME) — Italy’s first Ebola patient arrived in Rome on Tuesday after contracting the virus in Sierra Leone.

The 50-year-old doctor got the virus while working at a clinic run in the African country by the non-profit organization Emergency.

The doctor was flown to Rome in a sealed unit aboard a military plane. Italian authorities say he doesn’t have a fever yet.

So far, 5,500 people, mostly in West Africa, have died from Ebola this year.