Ebola in Germany: UN worker who contracted virus in Liberia dies in Leipzig
The 56-year-old man was transported for treatment last week
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Your support makes all the difference.A UN employee who contracted Ebola has died in a hospital in Germany.
The patient had been transported in isolation for treatment at the St Georg Hospital in Leipzig last week.
The man, who has not yet been named, had contracted the disease while working in Liberia. He tested positive for the disease on 6 October and died in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The man was the third Ebola patient to be flown to Germany for treatment.
The first patient, a Senegalese man infected with Ebola while working for the World Health Organisation in Sierra Leone, was taken to a Hamburg hospital in late August for treatment. He was discharged on 3 October after recovering and returned to his home country.
The clinic said in a statement: "The patient sick with Ebola fever died during the night in St. Georg Clinic in Leipzig.
Health Secretary said the UK could expect to see a “handful” of cases within the coming months.
The death toll in West Africa has reached more than 4,000 people, mainly from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. There has been over 8,000 suspected cases in the current outbreak.
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