![]() The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was awaiting laboratory confirmation after Nigeria attributed Friday's death in Abuja of a Liberian finance ministry official to Ebola. And, the private clinic where the man died was being "decontaminated." Nigeria said it had banned entry to ASky until it could prove that all its passengers had been adequately screened. Passengers departing Conakry in Guinea and Lome in Togo were being screened by medical teams, ASky said. The regional west African airline ASky said on Tuesday that it had suspended all of its flights to and from Freetown and Monrovia, the capitals of Sierra Leone and Liberia, to inhibit the virus' potential spread. Donning protective clothing at Hamburg's EKU clinic Image: picture alliance/Hagen HellwigĬurrently hospitalized with Ebola in Liberia are two American medics - Texas-trained missionary doctor Kent Brantly and co-worker Nancy Writebol. Leading virologist at Hamburg's Bernhard Nocht Institute, Professor Stefan Günther, said the treatment, if approved, would be a "psychological signal" to those medics trying to stem Ebola in Africa. ![]() Medical officials in the German city of Hamburg said Tuesday that the World Health Organization (WHO) had asked whether the city's university clinic could treat two infected medics from western Africa. It has no specific treatment and a fatality rate of at least 60 percent.Ī prominent Liberian doctor Samuel Brisbane died of Ebola last Saturday after treating patients in Monrovia. Since March, the outbreak has killed more than 670 people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Health Minister Miatta Kargbo called Khan a "national hero" and praised his "tremendous sacrifice" in working to save the lives of others. ![]() Three nurses who also worked at the main treatment center in Kenema, around 320 kilometers (200 miles) east of the capital Freetown had previously died of the disease, which in its final stages causes haemorrhaging. Sierra Leonean authorities said on Tuesday than Khan had died from the virus while being treated at a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) clinic in the far north of the country. ![]()
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