A UN Employee is said to have died of Ebola in Germany
According to a BBC report, a UN employee infected with Ebola has died in Germany.
The deceased, said to be a Sudanese doctor, was a medical official with the U.N. Mission in Liberia and was transported to Germany on Thursday, October 9 after testing positive to the disease.
He was receiving treatment in an isolation unit at the St Georg Clinic in Leipzig, a local clinic with specialist facilities.
The hospital has issued a statement saying:
"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."
A spokesperson for the hospital also said:
"We can confirm that the U.N. worker being treated here died last night from the Ebola virus. He was of Sudanese nationality "
The
deceased, the third infected person to be taken to Germany for
treatment, was said to have tested positive for Ebola on October 6 and
officials say he died overnight.
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