UN health worker flown to France for Ebola treatment

PARIS (Reuters) – A United Nations health worker suffering from Ebola has been flown to France from Sierra Leone for treatment, the French health ministry said in a statement overnight. The UN worker, whose name and nationality have not been disclosed, was transported to France aboard a specially equipped jet and placed in isolation at the Begin military hospital in the eastern Paris suburb of Saint-Mandé, the statement said. The UN worker is the second Ebola sufferer to have received treatment in France since the start of the epidemic ravaging West Africa. …
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Legacy of SARS in Asia offers lessons for Ebola fight

Health officials in masks and protective suits proceed to cull chickens in Hong Kong, after the deadly H7N9 bird flu virus was discovered in poultry imported from mainland China, on January 28, 2014The SARS outbreak of 2003 put Hong Kong on the frontline of a global health crisis — but the city's ultimately successful war on the virus offers lessons for those now battling Ebola. The flu-like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome infected 1,800 people and took 299 lives in the southern Chinese city. Eleven years later, the legacy of SARS can still be seen every day in Hong Kong. "All this came about after SARS," said Nelson Lee, head of infectious diseases at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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U.N. health worker flown to France for Ebola treatment

PARIS (Reuters) – A United Nations health worker suffering from Ebola has been flown to France from Sierra Leone for treatment, the French health ministry said in a statement overnight. The UN worker, whose name and nationality have not been disclosed, was transported to France aboard a specially equipped jet and placed in isolation at the Begin military hospital in the eastern Paris suburb of Saint-Mandé, the statement said. The UN worker is the second Ebola sufferer to have received treatment in France since the start of the epidemic ravaging West Africa. …
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