Senegalese WHO doctor with Ebola arrives for treatment in Germany


  • World
  • Wednesday, 27 Aug 2014

HAMBURG (Reuters) - A Senegalese doctor who contracted Ebola while working for the World Health Organisation (WHO)in Sierra Leone arrived in Hamburg on Wednesday for treatment at a tropical medicine unit, becoming Germany's first patient with the disease.

At a news conference on Wednesday the clinic's tropical medicine specialist said the man would not be given new experimental drugs such as ZMapp but that his treatment would at first focus on managing his symptoms.

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