Sudanese UN worker dies of Ebola in Germany

This is the first case of Ebola death reported in Germany. Three Ebola patients has been taken to Germany for treatment so far.A United Nations employee infected with Ebola while working in West Africa has died in a German hospital.
The aid worker was taken to Germany after contracting the disease in Liberia and was being treated in hospital in Leipzig.

The man had tested positive for ebola on 6 October and was put into a special isolation unit when he arrived in Germany three days later. Last week it was reported that he was a Sudanese doctor.

In a statement the hospital said:

The patient sick with ebola fever died during the night in St Georg Clinic in Leipzig. Despite intensive medical measures and maximum efforts by the medical team, the 56-year-old UN employee succumbed to the serious infectious disease.

He was the third Ebola patient to be taken to Germany. One of the others, a Senegalese expert, has been released from hospital in Hamburg and the other, a Ugandan doctor, is still receiving treatment in Frankfurt.

The latest ebola outbreak has so far killed more than 4,000 people, mainly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

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