A 56-year-old UN employee who had been working in Liberia died at the hospital in Leipzig where he was being treated for EBOLA. The patient was the third case in Germany this 2014 but he was the first to die.
According to BBC News, the UN medical worker was originally from Sudan. He died in Germany despite receiving experimental drugs to treat EBOLA virus. This 2014, over 4,400 people have died from the outbreak, which is mostly in West Africa.
The Guardian reported on the patient's arrival, hospital doctors said his condition was highly critical, but stable. Through a statement on Tuesday morning, the clinic confirmed that the patient had died on Monday night, in spite of the intensive medical actions and the best efforts of the staff.
The Leipzig clinic has guaranteed the public that there is no threat of EBOLA infection for people in the area. The man had arrived in Germany this 2014 on a specially modified Gulfstream jet with a quarantine chamber and had been treated on an isolation unit by staff wearing protection suits.
The Sudanese man was the third EBOLA victim this 2014 to receive treatment in Germany. In Frankfurt, a Ugandan doctor is being treated in an isolation unit while a Senegalese man was recently released from Hamburg clinic after five weeks of treatment.
The German government claims to be well-equipped for a possible outbreak of EBOLA this 2014. It said isolation units at hospitals in Frankfurt, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart and Hamburg could hold a total of 50 Ebola patients. However, there are no current plans to increase the number of units.
The West African EBOLA outbreak is still out of control particularly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization said the rate of new cases at some of the central areas has decreased, but the number of cases in the capitals of the worst affected areas continues to rise.
The World Health Organization said the number of health workers exposed to the disease is alarming. The agency also warned the outbreak threatens the actual existence of societies and could lead to failed conditions. They also cautioned that there could be up to 10,000 new cases of EBOLA per week in the next two months, up from the 1,000 cases per week presently perceived.
Meanwhile, according to Jenny Hill of BBC in Berlin, the EBOLA patient who died in Germany this 2014 was the second member of the UN team in Liberia to die from the deadly virus.
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