UN Official Contracted Ebola In Liberia Has Died

A high-ranking UN official, who was treated in German hospital in Leipzig, has died of Ebola according to the reports of the clinic.

The 56-year-old man, whose name has not been named yet,tested positive for Ebola on October, 6, warning Liberia’s UN peacekeeping mission to place 41 staff members who had probably been in contact with him under ‘close medical observation.’

Doctors treating a ‘patient’ during an infectious-disease crisis exercise at the St. Georg clinic in Leipzig. Photo: DPA

He arrived in St George’s clinic in Leipzig for treatment from Liberia on October, 9, where he was put into a special isolation ward. Doctors marked his state as “highly critical, but stable,” at the time.

There is one other Ebola patient being treated in Germany now, at a clinic in Frankfurt. He worked for an Italian aid group in West Africa.

Another patient, a Senegalese man, was released from a Hamburg hospital in good health following five weeks of treatment and returned to his native country. He contracted Ebola while working for the World Health Organization in Sierra Leone.

The St George’s clinic in Leipzig told in a statement that there was “no danger of the disease spreading following the treatment of the deceased patient.”

The deadly Ebola virus has been contracted by someone inside the United States for the first time. The patient is a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

More than 4,000 people were killed because of Ebola outbreak – mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) defined it as the “the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times“. The US and UK are among countries to have presented scanning at airports.