Ebola-infected Italian doctor ‘recovering’

An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola in west
Africa is recovering but is still in an isolation unit,
the specialist clinic in Rome treating him said
Monday.
The Spallanzani institute said on Twitter that the
50-year-old medic — who has not been named —
was in a “good condition” and was “recovering in
isolation”.
The father of two was repatriated in November
from Sierra Leone with a fever and given an
experimental drug to try to combat the often-
deadly virus.
The doctor — who became the first Italian to be
infected with Ebola while volunteering for an
Italian medical charity fighting the epidemic — can
now breathe, walk and eat unassisted.
Ebola, a disease transmitted through the bodily
fluids of infected people, can result in death from
uncontrollable bleeding and organ failure.
The current Ebola epidemic in west Africa — the
worst ever recorded — has so far killed around
7,350 people.