Italy’s first Ebola victim is flown into Rome in specially sealed plane

A doctor who became Italy’s first Ebola victim after contracting the virus in Sierra Leone arrived back in his home country in a specially sealed military plane this morning. He was flown into the military airport of Pratica di Mare, outside the capital Rome, and taken to a nearby hospital for infectious diseases, where he will receive specialist treatment. The unidentified doctor, who reports say is 50-years-old, was working for the charity...

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