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UN employee infected with Ebola dies in Germany
2014-10-15
[Iran Press TV] A United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
employee who contracted the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa has died after arriving in Germany for medical treatment, a report says.

A Sudanese doctor, who had arrived in Germany from Liberia last week, died Monday night in the city of Leipzig in Saxony state, St Georg Hospital said in a brief statement on Tuesday.

"Despite intensive medical care and the best efforts by medical staff, the 56-year-old UN employee succumbed to the serious infection," it noted.
Germany has previous treated two other Ebola patients infected in Sierra Leone, despite growing fears at the time of a potential outbreak of the deadly disease in Europe.

The patients included a Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
ese who was treated in Hamburg and released on October 4, and a Ugandan doctor currently undergoing treatment in Frankfurt.

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned last week that the spread of the Ebola virus across Europe is almost inevitable.

The WHO made the comments just hours after Europe's first case of Ebola infection was confirmed in Spain.

The infection rate is likely to exceed 10,000 new cases per week in the next two months, the WHO said.
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