A Nigerian soldier on
the United Nations’ peace mission in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola.
He is expected to be
flown to the Netherlands for treatment, a Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman
said on Friday.
The soldier will go
into isolation at a “calamity unit” at the University Medical Center Utrecht,
according to Inge Freriksen.
Late Thursday, the UN
mission announced that the soldier had tested positive for the dreaded disease
a day earlier.
This is the third case
of Ebola among mission personnel, according to Karin Landgren, a top UN envoy
in the country. The previous two died.
The mission has so far
identified 16 people who came into contact with the soldier, and they have been
quarantined, she said.
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