UN Health Worker Gets Ebola

The health worker was flown from Sierra Leone for treatment the French health ministry said in a statement.

The UN worker whose name and nationality have not been disclosed was transported to France aboard a specially equipped jet.

The patient was placed in isolation at the Begin military hospital in the eastern Paris suburb of Saint-Mande the statement said.

The worker is the second Ebola sufferer to have received treatment in France since the start of the epidemic ravaging West Africa.

A French nurse repatriated in September has since made a full recovery from the virus.

This year's outbreak of the disease has cost the lives of almost 5,000 people.

The worker is being treated at the request of the World Health Organisation.

The ministry added that there were currently no other confirmed Ebola cases in France.

By Bonareri Samaha