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Cuban doctor with Ebola virus

In this photo provided by the Geneva University Hospital (HUG), Cuban doctor Felix Baez Sarria, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, arrives on a gurney at the Geneva University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. Baez, a member of the 165-person medical team Cuba sent to Sierra Leone to help with the Ebola outbreak, caught the disease when he rushed to help a patient who was falling over. (AP Photo/Julien Gregorio, Geneva University Hospital) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO ARCHIVE

A Swiss hospital says a Cuban doctor who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone is in a stable condition after nearly two days of treatment.

In this photo provided by the Geneva University Hospital (HUG), Cuban doctor Felix Baez Sarria, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, arrives on a gurney at the Geneva University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. Baez, a member of the 165-person medical team Cuba sent to Sierra Leone to help with the Ebola outbreak, caught the disease when he rushed to help a patient who was falling over. (AP Photo/Julien Gregorio, Geneva University Hospital) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO ARCHIVE

Felix Báez Sarria was flown to Geneva and was able to walk off the transport plane in a protective suit and mask after landing late Thursday night.

The Geneva University Hospital said Saturday that “today his health status is stable, although he remains in a serious medical condition.” He is being treated in a special room in an area isolated from the rest of the hospital.

Báez, a member of a medical team Cuba sent to Sierra Leone, caught the disease when he rushed to help a patient who was falling over.

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