Doctor diagnosed with Ebola in France following aid mission

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By Erin Dean

A doctor has been admitted to hospital in France with Ebola after returning from a humanitarian mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The doctor, who is the first known case in France, is in a stable condition and receiving specialist hospital care, government officials said.

The unidentified male clinician had returned from the DRC, where he had been working in an area battling a major outbreak of the deadly virus.

The French Ministry of Health said the doctor was isolated as soon as he arrived in France and transferred to a specialist facility “under secure conditions”.

Public health officials are tracing people who may have had contact with the clinician, and any identified will be instructed to isolate at home for 21 days.

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