The World Health
Organisation is investigating reports that ISIS militants have been showing up
at an Iraqi hospital with Ebola.
According to three media
outlets an undisclosed number of militants displaying signs of the disease
attended a hospital in the ISIS-held city of Mosul, 250 miles north of Baghdad.
While the reports, from
Kurdish and pro-Iraqi sources, remain unconfirmed, WHO spokesman Christy Feig
said the group are trying to reach out to officials in ISIS-held areas to offer
help.
UN workers are currently
banned from entering ISIS-controlled areas in both Iraq and Syria so it is
unlikely an operation in the area could be carried out. Mosul has been under
control of ISIS since June 2014 and over the past few weeks militants have
reportedly executed more than a dozen doctors for refusing to treat injured
fighters.
According to a report in
Iraq's pro-government newspaper, al Sabaah, the disease was brought to Mosul by
terrorists arriving 'from several countries' and Africa.
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