Ebola patient to fly to Germany for treatment

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A patient suffering from Ebola will arrive in the German city of Frankfurt for treatment in an isolation station in the city's University Hospital, a spokesman for the clinic said on Thursday. "The University Hospital in Frankfurt is expecting the arrival of an Ebola patient on Oct. 3 - no other details are available," the spokesman said. German media said the patient is a Belgian doctor who was working in Sierra Leone, which authorities would not confirm. The health minister for Hesse state, Stefan Gruettner, will hold a news conference on Friday in the state capital of Wiesbaden to discuss the case, according to a press statement. It also had no further details. (Reporting by Reuters Television; Writing by Madeline Chambers and Erik Kirschbaum; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)