Ebola outbreak: Survivor William Pooley is flown to US to give doctor with virus emergency blood
transfusion.
The 29-year-old, who became the first Briton to contract Ebola, could help the US victim fight off the virus because his blood carries antibodies for the disease, the Evening Standard reports.
Mr Pooley was put on a flight on Friday night, paid for by the World Health Organisation, to Atlanta where the doctor is being treated in an isolation unit at Emory University Hospital.
Just hours earlier the Foreign Office had urgently issued him with a new passport because his was incinerated with all of his belongings after he returned from Africa....
...The pair, who both contracted the disease while helping to save the lives of thousands of Africans suffering from the disease, have the same blood type, making Mr Pooley an ideal donor.
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