Nigerian Soldier Tested Positive For Ebola

A Nigerian soldier with the United Nations’

Mission in Liberia (UNAMIL) has tested positive for Ebola.

He is expected to be flown to the Netherlands for

treatment, a Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman

told Associated Press.

The soldier will go into isolation at a “calamity

unit” at the University Medical Center Utrecht,

according to Inge Freriksen.

Late Thursday, the UN mission announced that

the soldier had tested positive for the dreaded

disease a day earlier.

This is the third case of Ebola among mission

personnel, according to Karin Landgren, a top UN

envoy in the country. The previous two died.

16 people who came into contact with the soldier

have been quarantined. Areas the peace keeper

visited while symptomatic have been

decontaminated.

The man will be the first Ebola patient

hospitalized in the Netherlands. He is being treated in a Dutch hospital at the request of the World Health Organization, Freriksen said.