BERLIN (Reuters) - German doctors are treating a woman they say may have contracted the deadly Ebola virus while working in a laboratory in the city of Hamburg, but there is no risk it will spread, the clinic treating her said on Tuesday.
The scientist at the Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg may have contaminated herself with a needle while working at the high security research centre even though she had worn protective clothing, the clinic said.
After suffering from a fever, which could either be a symptom of the virus or an effect of a vaccination she received, the woman was put into isolation on Sunday, said the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Clinic in a statement.
The incurable haemorrhagic fever, which has a mortality rate of 50-to-90 percent, is transmitted by contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people.
