A NIGERIAN SOLDIER TESTED POSITIVE TO EBOLA

A NIGERIAN SOLDIER TESTED POSITIVE TO EBOLA A United Nation peacekeeper who contracted Ebola in Liberia will be flown to the Netherlands for treatment, a Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman said Friday. The Nigerian soldier will go into isolation at a "calamity unit" at the University Medical Center Utrecht, according to Inge Freriksen. He is expected to arrive in Amsterdam over the weekend and be transferred by ambulance to nearby Utrecht. Late Thursday, the U.N. mission announced in a statement that the soldier had tested positive for the dreaded disease a day earlier. The infection of the U.N. peacekeeper is the third for the mission, which comprises about 7,700 troops and police and has been in Liberia since 2003 to bring stability after civil war. The previous two died. The mission has so far identified 16 people who came into contact with the most recently infected soldier, and they have been quarantined, the statement said. Areas the peacekeeper visited while symptomatic have been decontaminated.