MONROVIA, Liberia — A U.N. peacekeeper who contracted Ebola in Liberia will be flown to the Netherlands for treatment, a Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman said Friday.

The Nigerian soldier is expected to arrive in the Netherlands this weekend and will go into isolation at the University Medical Center Utrecht, according to Inge Freriksen.

This is the third infection for the mission, which comprises about 7,700 troops and police. The previous two died.

Sixteen people who came into contact with the Nigerian soldier have been quarantined, the mission said.

Ebola has sickened more than 17,500 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. About 6,200 have died.

Liberia has recorded the highest number of cases and deaths, but with infection rates stabilizing there, the government decided to go ahead with a Senate election this month and allowed campaign rallies. This week, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said those events are impeding efforts to contain Ebola and banned all public gatherings until 30 days after results of the Dec. 16 election are announced.

There are concerns that the president may be using Ebola as an excuse after a large crowd rallied in support of former soccer star Geroge Weah, who is running against Sirleaf's son, Robert.

"There is a clear political motive, and that political motive is in the interest of her son," said Tiawan Gongloe, a human rights lawyer who was once a member of Sirleaf's Cabinet.

Meanwhile, in Sierra Leone, where the disease is spreading fastest, 100 Nigerian health workers arrived Friday. Another 25 British doctors and nurses are expected Saturday. Sierra Leone is desperately short of space in Ebola clinics and health workers in hot spots around the capital and in the north.

Ebola has symptoms that are similar to other more common diseases, like malaria, and many people who have shown up at Ebola treatment centers have turned out to be sick with something else. In an effort to keep at least some of those people away from treatment centers, Sierra Leone launched a massive campaign Friday to hand out malaria medication door-to-door to 2.4 million people. Liberia has undertaken a similar campaign.

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Corder reported from The Hague, Netherlands. Associated Press writer Clarence Roy-Macaulay in Freetown, Sierra Leone, contributed.


source:
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=27383914&sid=76

additional source:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/12/05/388889/un-peacekeeper-tests-positive-for-ebola/

wow sad

Hiaaa! na true ooo, Ebola still d sef. Snc 9ja was declared Ebola free it hardly cross my mind.
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@ our gallant soldier, i pray u survive dis.
#Anoda lalasticlala's thread

Ebola Ebola Ebola you have claimed so many lives in 2014 come 2015 no one will die cause of you again.
may God save him.






Ebola: Nigerian health workers take the battle to the lion’s den
Source: e reporter.com.ng/index.php/more-news/health-news2/item/1876-ebola-nigerian-health-workers-take-the-battle-to-the-lion-s-den

I said it before (check my post)
its a good work but a dangerous one.

ok

Does it mean that he's gonna end like this soldier who was also infected with ebola in senegal?

Hope he survives

Yeh

The God of our land shall surely heal you.


Jehovah is His name.

May God safe us.

let him better remain there oh....we don't want another ebola scare..who knows?....maybe this time,we would be asked to bath with sugar water....no b salt water...its nt our potion abeg...don't want such things

Make dem cure am dia oh! Make he no cum back oh

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thank God he is to be flown to Holland instead of Naija, wishing him safe recovery

Not again

The Lord is your strength bro... You shall not die

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What

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Really.

jamesw:
ok

holatin:
bk

EbuGeneral:
ok

treasuress:
wow sad

dedons:
K

treasuress:
wow sad

I catch una

OPERATION...!!!
Ebola is not my Portion

Na wa o

I wish him quick recovery.

Very unfortunate

I wish him quick recovery


He doesn't deserve to die like this.


He is our soldier... Not an Ebola statistic




these mods are really putting us into marathon mode...

Seun, abeg help us beg dem na... They should slow down.... They have nothing to prove

Like seriously not again

Are Nigeria Soldiers still in Liberia? I thought they have all gone back home.

Ebola is nt a death sentence again joor, devil has Lost d battle, Fly him back to Nigeria we will cure him

Prayer to destroy ebola. It is working by faith. Hot prayer zones blog

Hmmm! Wishing him quick recovery. Folks, everyone has to be careful this festive period.

Our brothers and sisters living in Sierra Leone, Liberia and other heavily affected countries woild be travelling home this period.

Lets pray and remain conscious and cautious.
May the forces that fought it the first time not allow it return. Amin

Aaah


Make them no come back until they are free from the virus.


Oga GEJ give him anything he need, but coming back, I know you aren't crazy to allow that.


Plsssss don't risk the life of over 150 million Nigerians.

Not this Christmas period biko!Let him just stay there. We can come and treat him there...hian!

nigerian solders, raping bleeping ashawo since 1960

Lol...I made it! ... Why won't he contract Ebola; those soldiers sleep with virtually every lady they see! Karma.....