Monrovia: A UN peacekeeper who contracted Ebola in Liberia will be flown to the Netherlands for treatment, a Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman said today.

The Nigerian soldier will go into isolation at a "calamity unit" at the University Medical Center Utrecht, according to Inge Freriksen. He is expected to arrive in Amsterdam over the weekend and be transferred by ambulance to nearby Utrecht.

Late Thursday, the UN mission announced that the soldier had tested positive for the dreaded disease a day earlier. This is the third case of Ebola among mission personnel, according to Karin Landgren, the top UN envoy in the country.