Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Italian nurse tests positive for the Ebola Virus

The Italian Air Force on Wednesday said an Italian attendant who tested positive for the Ebola infection in the wake of coming back from Sierra Leone has been taken to Spallanzani Hospital in Rome.
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The Force said the tarnsfer of the 27-year-old from Sardinia was sorted out after his blood test positive on Tuesday for the infection.


The Italian Health Ministry likewise said in an announcement that the man, who worked in Sierra Leone as a volunteer for the Emergency


Therapeutic Charity, flew back to Italy on May 8 and felt the first indication of the illness after two days.


It said the clinic was required to issue an announcement about the medical attendant’s condition.


The service included that it was the second Ebola case treated in Italy.


It noticed that another crisis staff who served in Sierra Leone, Dr. Fabrizio Pulvirenti from Sicily was hospitalized at the Spallanzani doctor’s facility in November and pronounced cured following 39 days.

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