Nigerian UN Soldier Infected With Ebola In Liberia

A Nigerian soldier, who is serving on the United
Nations’ peace mission, has tested positive for the
deadly Ebola infection in Liberia and is to be flown to
the Netherlands for treatment.
The University Medical Center Utrecht will quarantine
the soldier at a “calamity unit,” The Nation reports.

According to a Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman,
Inge Freriksen, the peace-worker will be flown to the
capital, Amsterdam, and then carried to the city of
Utrecht.
The UN mission declared Nigerian soldier had tested
positive for the dreaded disease a day earlier.
The infected soldier had been a member of the United
Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), which has been
stationed in Liberia since 2003 to restore peace and
stability to the violence-ravaged country after two
deadly civil wars.
This is the third case of deadly virus among mission
staff, according to Karin Landgren, a top UN envoy in
the country. The previous two cases were fatal.
The mission has so far known 16 people who came into
contact with the trooper, and they have been isolated,
she said.
Areas the Nigerian visited while symptomatic have been
decontaminated.
He will be the first Ebola patient treated in the
Netherlands.
Only recently, doctors have announced that the first test
of Ebola vaccine in human shows it’s safe and appears
to be working as designed.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared
Nigeria officially free of Ebola on October 20 after six
weeks (42 days) with no new cases.
A small outbreak, with a total of twenty cases,
occurred in Nigeria during this year.