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An
ambulance carrying a Nigerian worker suspected of having Ebola arrives at the
Emergency Hospital of the University Medical Centre Utrecht in Utrecht, on
December 6, 2014 ©Vincent Jannink (ANP/AFP)
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A Nigerian UN peacekeeper
infected with Ebola and brought to the Netherlands for treatment has been
cured, the Dutch authorities said on Friday.
AFP reports "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 Organization 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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