BERLIN
A Sudanese United Nations soldier has become the third patient brought to Germany to receive medical treatment for Ebola after becoming infected while stationed in Liberia.
The 56-year-old is being treated at a special isolation unit at Sankt Georg Hospital in Leipzig and priority has been given to stabilizing his condition, officials from the hospital said Thursday.
While doctors are ready to use unapproved, experimental drugs as part of the treatment, a decision has yet to be reached on the matter, German news agency DPA reported.
Last Friday, a Senegalese national – who was hospitalized in late August while working in Sierra Leone for the World Health Organization (WHO) - was released from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf after successful treatment.
A Ugandan doctor who became infected with Ebola while working in Sierra Leone is also currently receiving treatment at the University Hospital Frankfurt.
In recent months, Ebola – a contagious disease for which there is no known treatment or cure – has killed at least 3,879 people in the West Africa region, according to WHO.
A tropical fever that first appeared in 1976 in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ebola can be transmitted to humans from wild animals. It can also reportedly spread through contact with the body fluids of infected persons or with those who have died of the virus.
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