A UN employee infected with Ebola has died at a
hospital in Germany.
Doctors at the hospital in Leipzig said the man,
56, died in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people
since March – mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone,
Guinea and Nigeria.
The World Health Organization described it as the
“the most severe, acute health emergency seen in
modern times”. The US and UK are among
countries to have introduced scanning at airports.
The man had been working as a UN medical
official in Liberia – one of the worst affected
countries by the outbreak – when he caught
Ebola. He arrived in Germany last Thursday for
treatment.
“Despite intensive medical measures and
maximum efforts by the medical team, the 56-
year-old UN employee succumbed to the serious
infectious disease,” a statement from St Georg
hospital said.
He was the third Ebola patient to be treated for
the deadly virus in Germany, Der Spiegel
newspaper reports.
One patient is still receiving treatment in a
hospital in Frankfurt, while a third was released
from a hospital in Hamburg after five weeks of
treatment, it adds.
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