Cuban doctor with Ebola flies out of Sierra Leone


  • World
  • Friday, 21 Nov 2014

General view of the Geneva University Hospital (HUG) in Geneva November 20, 2014. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy

FREETOWN (Reuters) - A Cuban doctor who caught Ebola while treating patients in Sierra Leone left the country on Thursday afternoon in an aircraft bound for Switzerland, a Reuters witness said.

The doctor Felix Baez, 43, is the first known Cuban to have contracted the disease which has killed at least 5,450 people in West Africa since March in the worst outbreak on record.

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