Posted on 10/14/2014 5:05:09 AM PDT by maggief
The 56-year-old man arrived in the country five days ago from Liberia
He was being treated in isolation unit at St Georg hospital in Leipzig
The aid worker was one of three people being treated for Ebola in Germany
Local health officials said last week the patient was a Sudanese doctor
A United Nations worker infected with Ebola has died in hospital in Germany despite intensive medical treatment. The 56-year-old man was being treated at the St Georg hospital in the eastern German town of Leipzig after being admitted five days ago, according to local officials. Local health officials said last week the patient was a Sudanese doctor who had arrived in Germany from Liberia.
He is one of three people infected with Ebola to be treated in Germany. One of the others, from Senegal, was released in good health from a Hamburg clinic after five weeks' treatment and has returned to his home country.
The other, a World Health Organization employee from Uganda, is still receiving treatment in Frankfurt after contracting the virus in Sierra Leone. The dead man, who tested positive for the virus on October 6, landed shortly after 5am last Thursday in a modified Gulfstream jet equipped with an isolation chamber, Sky News reported.
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A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Well for heaven’s sake, sue the German hospital, government, doctors, nurses, and sewer workers, jointly and severally, because Jesse Jackson thinks the guy died because of RACISM.
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