WHO Reports 70% Death Rate for Ebola
Tuesday 14 October 2014 15.11
The death rate in the Ebola epidemic raging in west Africa has reached around 70%, the World Health Organization said today.
"What we are finding is 70% mortality," said Bruce Aylward, assistant director-general of the WHO.
Earlier today a UN medical worker infected with the Ebola virus in west Africa died after arriving in Germany last week for treatment.
"Despite intensive medical measures and maximum efforts by the medical team, the 56-year-old succumbed to the serious infectious disease," the hospital in which the worker was being treated said in a statement.
Local health officials said last week the patient was a Sudanese doctor who had arrived in Germany from Liberia on Thursday.
The Leipzig Hospital where he was treated is one of seven hospitals in Germany with quarantine stations.
Germany has previously treated two other Ebola patients infected in Sierra Leone - a Senegalese expert who was treated in Hamburg and released on 4 October, and a Ugandan doctor who is now being treated in Frankfurt.
The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 4,000 people this year, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and is spread through close contact with bodily fluids.
Yesterday the US and UN leaders called for "more robust" international efforts to tackle Ebola after medics in Liberia demanded danger money to treat patients in what officials termed the worst health crisis of modern times.
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| Health facility in Leipzig, German where Sudanese physician died of Ebola. |
The death rate in the Ebola epidemic raging in west Africa has reached around 70%, the World Health Organization said today.
"What we are finding is 70% mortality," said Bruce Aylward, assistant director-general of the WHO.
Earlier today a UN medical worker infected with the Ebola virus in west Africa died after arriving in Germany last week for treatment.
"Despite intensive medical measures and maximum efforts by the medical team, the 56-year-old succumbed to the serious infectious disease," the hospital in which the worker was being treated said in a statement.
Local health officials said last week the patient was a Sudanese doctor who had arrived in Germany from Liberia on Thursday.
The Leipzig Hospital where he was treated is one of seven hospitals in Germany with quarantine stations.
Germany has previously treated two other Ebola patients infected in Sierra Leone - a Senegalese expert who was treated in Hamburg and released on 4 October, and a Ugandan doctor who is now being treated in Frankfurt.
The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 4,000 people this year, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and is spread through close contact with bodily fluids.
Yesterday the US and UN leaders called for "more robust" international efforts to tackle Ebola after medics in Liberia demanded danger money to treat patients in what officials termed the worst health crisis of modern times.
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