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   Dr. Felix Baez Sarria is being treated by British doctors in   
   Africa but he will be transferred to a special unit in Geneva at   
   the recommendation of the World Health Organization, Cuban state   
   media said, citing the island’s Ministry of Public Health.   
      
   Cuba won global praise for sending at least 256 medical workers   
   to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea to help treat Ebola   
   patients. State officials have emphasized the medics’ high state   
   of readiness for the mission, saying the doctors, nurses and   
   support staff received weeks of instruction in protective   
   measures and equipment.   
      
   Once in Africa, the Cubans got two to three weeks of additional   
   training before heading into the field. They were to be   
   quarantined in Africa for weeks at the end of their six-month   
   mission before returning to Cuba.   
      
   State media said that Baez, an internal medicine specialist,   
   came down with a fever of more than 100 degrees on Sunday and   
   was diagnosed with Ebola the following day.   
      
   Cuban officials did not say how he caught the disease or   
   immediately release any other information about the case, the   
   first reported among the health workers the island sent to   
   Africa.   
      
   Early symptoms of Ebola include fever, headache, body aches,   
   cough, stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea, and patients aren’t   
   contagious until those begin. The virus requires close contact   
   with body fluids to spread so health care workers and family   
   members caring for loved ones are most at risk.   
      
   Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people in the west African   
   countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.   
      
   Cuba is one of the largest global contributors of medical   
   workers to the fight against Ebola, a commitment that has drawn   
   rare praise from the U.S. and focused worldwide attention on the   
   island’s unique programme of medical diplomacy, which deploys   
   armies of doctors to win friends abroad and earn billions a year   
   in desperately needed foreign exchange.   
      
   Cuba has more than 50,000 medical workers in more than 60   
   countries, many in nations like Brazil that pay hundreds of   
   millions a year for their services. Others are on humanitarian   
   missions that generate good will abroad.   
      
   Despite a recent set of pay raises, most Cuban doctors’ salaries   
   don’t top $75 a month, less than many workers in tourism or   
   other sectors that bring in money from abroad. The foreign   
   missions almost uniformly offer the chance to earn extra pay, in   
   many cases enough to buy a bigger home or new car.   
      
   Critics of Cuba’s communist government have accused it in the   
   past of exploiting the doctors by giving them only a small   
   portion of the money paid for their services and keeping the   
   rest.   
      
   http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/ebola-infected-   
   cuban-doctor-to-be-sent-to-   
   geneva/article6614239.ece?homepage=true   
      
       
      
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