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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.
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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 1 Like |
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