Ebola: Cuban Doctor Contracts Ebola in Sierra Leone

One of the doctors from Cuba sent to help tackle the Ebola scourge in Sierra Leone has contracted the virus.
Dr. Felix Baez reportedly developed high fever of more than 100 degrees and the test carried out confirmed he has contracted the virus.

According to Aljazeera, Dr. Felix Baez is the first to contract virus, out of 165 - member medical team deployed by island nation to Sierra Leone .
A member of the 165 -member Cuban medical team sent to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone has been
diagnosed with the disease, and will be sent to Geneva for treatment , Cuban state media reported .

Another doctor dies from Ebola virus in the US.

Another doctor Dr. Martin Salia, 44yrs who contracted EBOLA in Africa in the course of caring for Ebola patients has died in the US. He was flown to the US from Africa and was being treated at the Nebraska Medical Centre in the US. Dr. Salia is originally from Sierra Leone but resides in the US.

This was confirmed In a statement by the Medical Director of the Biocontainment Unit and professor of Infectious diseases at Nebraska Medical center Dr. Phil Smith who said......
“It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share this news,”

EBOLA: Ugandan Doctor Suspected of Ebola arrives Germany from Sierra Leone

A Ugandan doctor suspected to be
suffering from Ebola disease has arrived in Frankfurt from Sierra Leone for treatment in the city’s University Hospital, a German government official has said.

Health Minister of German state, Hesse, Stefan Gruettner, who disclosed this to journalists in Wiesbaden, Frankfurt on Friday, said that the patient was a physician.
He said that the Ugandan had worked for an Italian Non-Governmental Organisation and had also looked after patients in Sierra Leone.

Gruettner explained that the doctor was in Germany for treatment, saying that the hospital had capacity to help him.
According to him, the World Health Organisation had asked Germany if it could help in taking care of the patient.

“It is a sign for those who help in the
regions where the disease has broken out, especially badly, that they can get help if they contract the disease themselves,” he said.

Head of the Frankfurt Competence
Center for Highly Contagious Life-
Threatening Diseases, Rene Gottschalk, said that the Ugandan doctor was being treated in an isolation unit in the Frankfurt hospital.

Gottschalk said that the patient was
conveyed from the airport to the
hospital in a special vehicle.

Latest report from WHO indicates that no fewer than 3,338 people had died of the Ebola disease in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.

A case in the U.S. has heightened
concerns that Ebola could spread
globally and could raise further
questions about travel restrictions from the affected countries.

Culled from NAN