WHO employee who contracted Ebola leaves German hospital

The Senegalese epidemiologist, who was flown to Hamburg in late August after contracting the disease in Sierra Leone, left on Friday after being successfully treated, the hospital said.

"He's doing well and he hasn't been contagious for many days now. We're delighted that he can now return to his home country," the statement said.

The worst outbreak on record of Ebola, a contagious, haemorrhagic fever, has killed more than 3,400 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, according to the World Health Organisation.

(Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Stephen Powell)