I had been wondering about how the relatively large contingent of Cuban health workers had been doing, most of them working in Sierra Leone. The first Cuban healthcare worker has contracted Ebola, a doctor, and was transported to a special ward in Geneva, Switzerland, where he is stable and his fever has come down.

It's not clear at what stage his disease is in, and whether he is "over the hump" already or whether worse is yet to come.

I've got to hand it to these folks, these Cuban workers volunteer for six month tours of direct patient care which exposes them to many chances to be infected over such a long assignment. Compare that to the typical 4 week assignments of MSF volunteers (and I think that 4 weeks also includes time spent training, too). And they volunteered back before most Western Ebola patients were recovering from the disease, so at that time, they probably considered the possibility of contracting Ebola to be almost a death sentence.