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Italy's Ebola patient is getting better

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Italy's Ebola patient is getting better
The Italian doctor is being treated at Rome's Spallanzani Institute. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFP

An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola in west Africa is recovering but is still in an isolation unit, the specialist clinic in Rome treating him said on Monday.

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The Spallanzani Institute said on Twitter that the 50-year-old medic - who has not been named - was in a "good condition" and was "recovering in isolation".

The father of two was repatriated in November from Sierra Leone with a fever and given an experimental drug to try to combat the often-deadly virus.

The doctor - who became the first Italian to be infected with Ebola while volunteering for an Italian medical charity fighting the epidemic - can now breathe, walk and eat unassisted.

Ebola, a disease transmitted through the bodily fluids of infected people, can result in death from uncontrollable bleeding and organ failure.

The current Ebola epidemic in West Africa - the worst ever recorded - has so far killed around 7,350 people.

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