(VOVworld) - French Health Minister Marisol Touraine said Monday that a UN worker being treated for Ebola in Paris was in stable condition. Speaking to France Inter radio, Touraine said the worker being treated in Paris at the request of the World Health Organization (WHO), was receiving the best possible care.

On Sunday, the UN employee was taken to France from Sierra Leone aboard a specially-equipped jet and placed in isolation at a military hospital in an eastern Paris suburb.

The patient is the second Ebola case treated in France since the start of the epidemic in March in West Africa. A French volunteer nurse, working with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), returned home in September after being infected with Ebola virus during a mission in Liberia. The WHO said 4,922 people have died from the virus so far, and 13,700 others have been infected.