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Ebola Patient Dies In German Hospital by gemiclem(m): 5:42pm On Oct 14, 2014
A 56-year-old man who had been
working with the United Nations in Liberia
died overnight at the hospital in Leipzig where
he was being treated for Ebola , the hospital
said Tuesday in a statement quoted by the
German news media.

The brief statement gave no further details.
The man was the third patient to arrive in
Germany in recent weeks for treatment of
Ebola, and the first to die.

The first patient, a Senegalese man who worked
for the World Health Organization, was treated
in Hamburg from late August until Oct. 3,
when he was released. He has since returned
home.

The second patient, a Ugandan doctor
who was working in West Africa for an Italian
aid organization, continues to receive
treatment at a hospital in Frankfurt.
The St. Georg clinic in Leipzig, where the man
who died was treated, announced his arrival
last Thursday in a statement. At the time,
doctors said his condition was critical, but
stable, and there were no further updates on
his status.
The hospital gave assurances that the third
patient would be safely isolated. “There is no
risk of infection for other patients, relatives,
visitors or the public,” Dr. Iris Minde, the
chief executive of the clinic, said in a
statement when the patient was admitted. Dr.
Minde said the clinic followed the “strictest
hygienic protocols according to latest
standards.”

Dr. Thomas Grünewald, a senior physician at
the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and
Nephrology at the hospital, said the patient
would be tended around the clock by at least
one doctor and a nurse “in protection suits.”
He said then that the staff “was perfectly
prepared,” and that it had been training with a
system of airlocks that hermetically sealed
special negative-pressure rooms used in the
isolation ward.

Bild, a top-selling daily newspaper, on Monday
questioned whether the clinic was able to
dispose safely of medical waste. It quoted the
hospital as saying that it was set to receive the
delivery only on Tuesday of a special machine
that disinfects protection suits, gloves and
masks before they are burned.
Attempts to reach hospital personnel for
comment on both Monday and Tuesday were
unsuccessful. By midmorning, the hospital’s
website had not been updated with news of the
death, but a brief statement was issued to the
German news media.
Re: Ebola Patient Dies In German Hospital by agitator: 5:54pm On Oct 14, 2014
Come learn from Nigeria wink wink wink
Re: Ebola Patient Dies In German Hospital by kemiola89(f): 9:18pm On Oct 14, 2014
^^^^ Last I checked Nigeria also recorded 7 death Ebola cases if not more... so stop acting like we are perfect
Re: Ebola Patient Dies In German Hospital by Nobody: 9:48pm On Oct 14, 2014
There are rumours going round of a case in ijebu ode.
Re: Ebola Patient Dies In German Hospital by tos4u(m): 9:56pm On Oct 14, 2014
God is too good to Nigeria, surely GOD IS A NIGERIAN

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