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Sierra Leone's Top Ebola Doctor Dies after Contracting The Virus by Alexsmith20(m): 11:11pm On Jul 29, 2014
Sierra Leone's top doctor fighting an outbreak of Ebola has died from the virus, the country's chief medical officer, Brima Kargbo, said on Tuesday.

Sheik Umar Khan, who was credited with
treating more than 100 patients, was
infected with Ebola this month and had
been moved to a treatment ward run by
medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres in the far north of the country.

The news of his death comes as health
officials admit they do not have a list of
all the people a Liberian Ebola victim came into contact with in the hours before he collapsed, prompting fears the outbreak could spread.

Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for Liberia's
Finance Ministry, died on Friday after
arriving at Lagos airport on June 20,
having vomited and suffered diarrhoea on
two flights.

The 40-year-old U.S. citizen had been to
the funeral of his sister, who also died
from the disease.

He was put in isolation at the First
Consultants Hospital in Obalende, one of
the most crowded parts of the city, home
to around 21 million people.
Mr Sawyer took two flights to reach
Lagos, from Monrovia to Lome and then onto the Nigerian capital.

So far 59 people who came into contact
with Mr Sawyer have been identified by
Nigerian health officials, and are under
surveillance.
But the airlines have yet to release flight
manifests naming each passenger and crew member.

In the immediate aftermath of Nigeria's
first death from the disease, health chiefs
shut and quarantined the hospital
involved.
Lagos state heatlh commissioner Jide Idris,
said the hospital would be closed for a week, and the staff would be closely
monitored.

'The private hospital was demobilized and
the primary source of infection eliminated,he told a news conference.

Re: Sierra Leone's Top Ebola Doctor Dies after Contracting The Virus by Nobody: 11:26pm On Jul 29, 2014
Nawa oo, even HIV is more merciful than this one. God protect us from Ebola and Boko haram in Jesus name, Amen

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