Italian doctor being treated with experimental Ebola drug
(AGI) Rome, Nov. 25 - The Italian doctor who contracted theEbola virus in Sierra Leone is being treated with anexperimental drug at Rome's Spallanzani hospital. The "specificantiviral treatment is a drug which is not registered in Italy.It was authorised in an ordinance by Italian Medicine AgencyAIFA, as requested by the Health Ministry", hospital staffstated during a press conference. The doctor "is in goodoverall condition", although he was "presenting with theshivers and a fever" when he arrived at the hospital, alongwith "a general sense of discomfort and conjunctivalhyperaemia", said Dr. Emanuele