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Italian Ebola victim returns home for treatment

Italian Ebola victim returns home for treatment
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An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone has returned home for treatment.

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Video released by the Italian Air Force shows the man being transferred from a plane to an ambulance inside a portable isolation unit

The Italian health ministry said the doctor, who had been working for the humanitarian group Emergency, is in a stable condition and is eating and drinking on his own.

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