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Ebola news 11/17
« on: November 17, 2014, 03:28:32 PM »
Germ-Zapping Robot Could Fight Ebola and Other Deadly Viruses
LiveScience.com
By Elizabeth Palermo  2 hours ago



A spokesperson for the company that made the robot explains how the machine works to staff at Hospital Langley.



A new germ-zapping robot could help stop the spread of deadly viruses, like Ebola, in hospitals and other health care facilities in the United States.

Standing a little more than 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall, the robot  — nicknamed "Saul" — uses pulses of high-intensity, high-energy ultraviolet rays to split open bacterial cell walls and kill dangerous pathogens, said Geri Genant, a health care services implementation manager with Xenex, the company that developed the robot.

A surgical team at the U.S. Air Force Hospital Langley in Hampton, Virginia, was recently trained to use the virus-destroying robot, which can kill a single strand of ribonucleic acid (RNA) — similar to that of the Ebola virus— in less than 5 minutes, Genant said.

"Hospitals that have used this have been able to bring infection rates down, in many cases [by] 60 percent," Genant said in a statement. The hospitals Genant was referring to were presumably not those affected by the Ebola epidemic.

The robot's latest pit stop, Langley Air Force Base, is home to the U.S. military's 633rd Medical Group, a group of service members who recently returned from an assignment in West Africa. There, they were charged with setting up a medical support facility in one of the West African countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak, according to the Air Force. The team also trained international health care workers on how to use the facility's equipment.

Although the 633rd Medical Group allegedly had no exposure to the Ebola virus or to Ebola victims during its time in Africa, the U.S. military is still taking every precaution to prevent Ebola from spreading in the U.S., should one or more of the military's recently returned service members fall ill with the virus. Everyone involved with the mission is being monitored twice daily for three weeks after their return to the U.S., and so far, no symptoms of the virus have been reported.

The new virus-killing robot at Langley Air Force Base is an added precaution that provides patients, as well as medical staff, with an additional measure of safety, said Marlene Kerchenski, the 633rd MDG surgeon general chief of nursing services.

Staff members wearing proper protection equipment traditionally clean hospital rooms at Langley using chemicals that are known to kill harmful viruses, bacteria and fungi. However, these pathogens can still linger in some areas, according to Air Force officials. The Ebola virus, for example, can survive on dry surfaces — like doorknobs and countertops — for several hours if those areas are not properly disinfected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But Saul the robot's ultraviolet rays, which are 25,000 times brighter than florescent lights, can kill the pathogens that human hands miss, according to officials at Xenex.

"Xenex has tested its full spectrum disinfection system on 22 microorganisms, studying nearly 2,000 samples in several independent labs all over the world," Genant said. The bot can destroy viruses similar to Ebola with an efficiency rate of 99.9 percent, she added.

Hospital staff at Langley will continue to receive training on the proper use of the disinfecting robot, which will soon be used to help eradicate and control viruses throughout the hospital.


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No safety concerns yet in trials of GSK's Ebola vaccine
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2014, 04:37:53 PM »
No safety concerns yet in trials of GSK's Ebola vaccine
Reuters
By Kate Kelland  5 hours ago



The logo of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is seen on its office building in Shanghai July 12, 2013. REUTERS/Aly Song



LONDON (Reuters) - Almost 200 people have received GlaxoSmithKline's experimental Ebola vaccine in trials in the United States, Britain, Mali and Switzerland, and the safety data so far are "very satisfactory", scientists said on Monday.

The trials, which began just over two months ago, have been using healthy volunteers, rather than patients with Ebola, to test whether the vaccine is safe for humans.

The experimental shot uses a single Ebola virus gene from a chimpanzee virus to generate an immune response. Because it doesn't contain any infectious virus material, it can't infect those being vaccinated.

Adrian Hill, a professor at Oxford University who is leading the British arm of the trial, said 20 people at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, 80 people at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development in Mali, 34 people out of an eventual 120 at the University Hospital of Lausanne, and 59 out of an eventual 60 at the University of Oxford had so far been given the shot.

"The safety data here have looked very satisfactory so far," Hill said in a statement. "The response we have seen from people coming forward to take part has been remarkable."

The West Africa Ebola epidemic has now infected more than 13,000 people -- mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia -- and killed more than 5,000 of them, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Several drug companies are now accelerating Ebola vaccine trials and the WHO has said it hopes one or more of the vaccines may be ready for some limited use in West Africa in early 2015.

GSK's vaccine and another leading candidate made by NewLink Genetics are already in human trials. Five more should begin testing in the first quarter of next year, according to the WHO. One from Johnson & Johnson will start trials in January.

Hill said the teams running the GSK vaccine trial should know by late December 2014 how the immune responses of Malian health care workers who have had the shot compare to those observed in adults given the vaccine in Britain and Switzerland.

(Reporting by Kate Kelland; Editing by Andrew Heavens)


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U.N. Ebola mission chief in Guinea dies of natural causes
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2014, 05:05:32 PM »
U.N. Ebola mission chief in Guinea dies of natural causes
Reuters  7 minutes ago



CONAKRY (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. Ebola Emergency Response Mission (UNMEER) in Guinea, one of the countries at the epicenter of the outbreak, died suddenly on Monday of natural causes, the U.N. mission and authorities in Guinea said.

Rwandan national Marcel Rudasingwa, who was a U.N. Assistant Secretary-General, was appointed to the post in Guinea last month. He had previously worked for the U.N. Children's Fund for almost 20 years, the statement said.

Authorities in Guinea said Rudasingwa showed no sign of having contracted the Ebola virus.

"Marcel played a pivotal role in the organization's and the international community's response to the Ebola crisis in Guinea," said UNMEER mission chief Anthony Banbury.

The organization coordinates the global response to the epidemic which has killed at least 5,165 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

(Reporting by Saliou Samb; Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg; Editing by Ralph Boulton)


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Doctor with Ebola dies at Nebraska hospital
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2014, 05:38:29 PM »
Doctor with Ebola dies at Nebraska hospital
AFP  4 hours ago



A surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone died Monday while being treated in a biocontainment unit at a Nebraska hospital, the facility said.



Washington (AFP) - A doctor from Sierra Leone who was being treated at a US hospital for Ebola has died, the Nebraska Medical Center said Monday.

"We are extremely sorry to announce that the third patient we've cared for with the Ebola virus, Dr. Martin Salia, has passed away as a result of the advanced symptoms of the disease," said the hospital in a statement.

The hospital said it would "tentatively" schedule a press conference was announced at 11:00 (1700 GMT) to brief reporters on the details.

Salia, a native of Sierra Leone and a US resident, was infected with the deadly hemorrhagic fever while treating patients in his home country.

He was flown to Nebraska for treatment on Saturday.

The hospital said late Sunday that Salia was in "extremely critical" condition and that doctors were doing everything they could to save him.

Salia was the 10th person with Ebola to be treated in the United States, and the second to have died from the infection.

In October, a Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan, died at a Texas hospital of the virus which has killed thousands of people in West Africa in history's largest ever outbreak.

The World Health Organization said Friday that 5,177 people are known to have died of Ebola across eight countries, out of a total 14,413 cases of infection, since December 2013.


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Red Cross officials: Ebola flaring anew in Africa
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2014, 08:03:43 PM »
Red Cross officials: Ebola flaring anew in Africa
Associated Press
By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG  2 hours ago



BRUSSELS (AP) — Red Cross officials helping to lead the fight against Ebola in West Africa said Monday the virus is still spreading, and they're having trouble recruiting health care workers to combat it.

Antoine Petitbon of the French Red Cross said that it's easier for him to recruit people to go to Iraq, despite the security hazards there. He said the French Red Cross is facing an unprecedented problem: Sixty percent of people it signs up to work in the Ebola zone subsequently back out due to pressure from families and friends.

Birte Hald, head of emergency operations for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said that after a recent surge of optimism that the virus was coming under control, especially in Liberia, it "is flaring up in new villages, in new locations." On Monday, Hald said, a team of international experts was being set to Mali to assist that nation's health authorities in stemming an outbreak of Ebola there.

"Unfortunately, it doesn't look as if we have bent the curve yet," said Hald, who heads the Red Cross federation's anti-Ebola effort in Africa. "It is absolutely premature to start being optimistic."

Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people in West Africa, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leona. On Monday, a surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone died in a Nebraska hospital while being treated in a biocontainment unit, the hospital announced.

Red Cross officials, speaking at a joint news conference in Brussels, called on the media to get out the message that Ebola is not highly contagious. The better the public understands that, said Alasan Senghore, the federation's Africa director, "the more we will get people to volunteer to come and work in those countries."


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Sierra Leone doctor dies of Ebola at Nebraska hospital
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2014, 08:06:47 PM »
Sierra Leone doctor dies of Ebola at Nebraska hospital
Reuters
By Colleen Jenkins  19 minutes ago



Health workers in protective suits transport Dr. Martin Salia, a surgeon working in Sierra Leone who had been diagnosed with Ebola, from a jet that brought him from Sierra Leone to a waiting ambulance that will take him to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014. Dr. Salia is the third Ebola patient at the Omaha hospital and the 10th person with Ebola to be treated in the U.S. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)



(Reuters) - A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone died early on Monday of the disease at a Nebraska hospital, medical officials said, the second death from the virus out of 10 known cases treated in the United States.

Dr. Martin Salia, a native of Sierra Leone and a permanent U.S. resident, had been in very critical condition when he arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center on Saturday afternoon, Dr. Phil Smith, director of the biocontainment unit, said at a news conference.

"He had no kidney function, he was working extremely hard to breathe and he was unresponsive," Dr. Daniel Johnson said.

Salia was put on dialysis within hours of his arrival and required intubation and mechanical ventilation within 12 hours. He was given plasma from an Ebola survivor and the drug ZMapp provided by Mapp Biopharmaceutical on Saturday, said Dr. Chris Kratochvil, associate vice chancellor for clinical research at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Salia, 44, who was chief medical officer at United Methodist Kissy Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, tested positive last week for Ebola, the United Methodist Church's news service said.

The news service said it was unclear how or where Salia contracted Ebola. Salia, who had trained as a doctor in Sierra Leone's College of Medicine, also worked at several other medical facilities.

"Our hearts go out to his grieving family," Bishop Warner H. Brown Jr., president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops, said in a statement. "Dr. Salia was a dedicated Christian physician who was living out a calling to serve others."

Salia was flown to the United States at the request of his wife, an American who lives in Maryland.

Salia was the third Ebola patient treated at the Omaha hospital. The two other Ebola patients, who were infected in Liberia, recovered.

Smith said staff who worked directly on Salia will take their temperatures twice a day, check daily for symptoms and log results into a database but will not be limited from working.

"As long as they are asymptomatic they are considered safe," Smith said. "Even if they were infected, they would not spread it to anyone else."

The current outbreak of Ebola is the worst on record. It has killed at least 5,177 people, mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization.

(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins and David Bailey; Editing by Susan Heavey, Doina Chiacu and Bill Trott)


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Mali fears surge of Ebola, expands watch to 440 people
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2014, 08:10:33 PM »
Mali fears surge of Ebola, expands watch to 440 people
AFP  3 hours ago



Police officers stand in front of the quarantined Pasteur clinic in Bamako on November 12, 2014 (AFP Photo/Habibou Kouyate)



Bamako (AFP) - Fearful of a surge of Ebola cases, Mali placed more than 440 people under surveillance as a US hospital said Monday it had been unable to save the life of a doctor airlifted from Sierra Leone.

Officials in Mali met to consider increasing security at its border following two confirmed cases of Ebola due to infection in neighboring Guinea.

US airports also announced plans to begin enhanced screening of travelers from the west African nation.

Mali has been scrambling to prevent a minor outbreak from turning into a major crisis after the deaths of a Guinean imam and the Malian nurse who treated him in the capital Bamako.

A friend who had visited the imam in the Pasteur clinic also died of probable Ebola and a two-year-old child died from the disease in an unconnected case in the western town of Kayes in October.

"The number of contacts followed by health services amounts to 442. They have all been placed under observation for health control," Samba Sow, of the Ebola emergency operations center, said in a statement late Sunday.



A health worker wearing a personal protective equipment works in the red zone of the Hastings treatment center in Hastings, outside Freetown on November 11, 2014 (AFP Photo/Francisco Leong)


Teams of investigators have been tracking health workers and scouring Bamako and the imam's village of Kouremale, which straddles the Mali-Guinea border, for people who could have been exposed.

The WHO announced on Friday that the outbreak -- almost entirely confined to west Africa -- has killed 5,177 people and infected around 14,500 since Ebola emerged in Guinea in December.

The virus is estimated to have killed around 70 percent of its victims across west Africa, often shutting down their organs and causing unstoppable bleeding.


- Enhanced screening -

US authorities on Monday began enhanced Ebola screenings of travelers from Mali, adding to measures already in place in for travelers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.



Ambulance staff at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center conduct a drill to test their ability to diagnose and treat Ebola patients in Los Angeles on October 17, 2014 (AFP Photo/Mark Ralston)


The US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, in a joint statement with the Department of Homeland Security, said Mali was added to the list "because there have been a number of confirmed cases of Ebola" there in recent days.

"A large number of individuals may have been exposed to those cases," the statement said.

"The action is warranted as a precaution due to the possibility that other cases of Ebola may emerge in Mali in the coming days," the statement said.

The United States said about 15-20 travelers depart Mali each day en route to the United States.

Those arriving will be checked for fever and subject to the 21-day monitoring and movement protocols already in effect for people coming from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

The monitoring includes mandatory twice daily temperature and symptom checks in coordination with state and local public health authorities.

The enhanced Ebola screenings are carried out at five US airports: New York's JFK, New Jersey's Newark airport, Washington Dulles, Atlanta and Chicago.


- Surgeon is mourned -

In Nebraska, medical staff mourned the death of a surgeon infected in Sierra Leone who died about a day after being airlifted to a specialized US hospital.

Martin Salia, 44, was a US resident who had been working at a hospital near Freetown. The married father of two was suffering multiple organ failure by the time he arrived in the United States on Saturday.

"Dr. Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, and unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we weren't able to save him," said Phil Smith, medical director of the biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Salia and his wife, Isatu, lived in New Carrollton, Maryland, a suburb of the US capital Washington. They have two children, age 12 and 20.

"We're very grateful for the efforts of the team led by Dr. Smith," she said in a statement.

"In the short time we spent here, it was apparent how caring and compassionate everyone was."

Salia is seen in a video distributed by United Methodist Kissy Hospital outside Freetown, where he worked, describing why he wanted to treat patients in Sierra Leone.

"I took this job not because I want to, but I firmly believe it was a calling," he said.

"I strongly believe that God has called me here."


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S. Leone doctor with Ebola dies at US hospital
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2014, 08:14:00 PM »
S. Leone doctor with Ebola dies at US hospital
AFP  5 hours ago



Dr. Martin Salia, a surgeon infected with the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone, arrives at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska on November 15, 2014 (AFP Photo/Eric Francis)



Washington (AFP) - A surgeon who was infected with Ebola while working in his native Sierra Leone has died, becoming the second patient in the United States to succumb to the hemorrhagic virus, officials said Monday.

Martin Salia, 44, a US resident, was infected with Ebola while treating patients in his home country. The virus has killed thousands in West Africa since the start of the year.

Salia was flown to Nebraska for treatment on Saturday, but doctors said his organs were failing by the time he arrived and they were unable to save him.

"Dr. Salia was suffering from advanced symptoms of Ebola when he arrived at the hospital Saturday, which included kidney and respiratory failure," the Nebraska Medical Center in a statement.

"He was placed on dialysis, a ventilator and multiple medications to support his organ systems in an effort to help his body fight the disease."

Salia was also given donated plasma from a survivor of Ebola and the experimental drug treatment ZMapp.

The hospital said late Sunday that doctors were doing everything they could to save him.

"It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share this news," said Phil Smith, medical director of the Biocontainment Unit at Nebraska Medical Center, in a statement early Monday.



Nurses from a Los Angeles hospital hold placards while marching during a lunch hour rally drawing attention to properly equipping and educating nurses on the Ebola crisis on November 12, 2014 (AFP Photo/Frederic J. Brown)


"Dr. Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, and unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we weren't able to save him."


- Salia was 10th patient treated in US -

Salia was the 10th person with Ebola to be treated in the United States, and the second to have died from the infection which causes vomiting, diarrhea and often fatal bleeding.

In October, a Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan, died at a Texas hospital of the virus which has killed thousands of people in West Africa in history's largest outbreak to date.

Nebraska Medical Center had previously treated a US missionary doctor, Rick Sacra, and a freelance photojournalist, Ashoka Mukpo, who were both infected in Liberia and survived their infections.

When Salia first began to show symptoms of Ebola in Sierra Leone, a test for the virus came back negative, according to the Washington Post.

A second test, on November 10, was positive.

Salia and his wife lived in New Carrollton, Maryland, a suburb of the US capital Washington. They have two children, age 12 and 20.

"We're very grateful for the efforts of the team led by Dr. Smith," said his wife, Isatu, in a statement.

"In the short time we spent here, it was apparent how caring and compassionate everyone was. We are so appreciative of the opportunity for my husband to be treated here and believe he was in the best place possible."

The World Health Organization said Friday that 5,177 people are known to have died of Ebola across eight countries, out of a total 14,413 cases of infection, since December 2013.

Salia is seen in a video distributed by United Methodist Kissy Hospital outside Freetown, where he worked, describing why he wanted to treat patients in Sierra Leone.

"I took this job not because I want to, but I firmly believe it was a calling," he said.

"I strongly believe that God has called me here."


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Chinese team arrives in Liberia to staff Ebola clinic
« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2014, 08:15:54 PM »
Chinese team arrives in Liberia to staff Ebola clinic
Reuters  November 16, 2014 2:46 AM



MONROVIA (Reuters) - About 160 Chinese health workers arrived on Saturday in Liberia, where they are due to staff a new $41 million Ebola clinic that, unlike most other foreign interventions, is being built and fully run by Chinese personnel.

China, Africa's biggest trade partner, had come under fire for the level of its response to the Ebola crisis. But it said this week it would send 1,000 personnel to help fight an outbreak that has killed over 5,000 people in West Africa.

"Up to now in Liberia, China is the only country which provides not only the construction of an ETU (Ebola treatment unit), but also the running and operation and the staffing of an ETU," Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yue told Reuters.

The United States has pledged more money and personnel than any other nation pitching in to fight the worst Ebola outbreak on record. But its response is based on building clinics and training locals to run them.

Zhang said the new team in Liberia included a mix of doctors, nurses, technicians and engineers.

"They experienced SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). They are very knowledgeable in this area," he said, referring to the contagious illness that was first identified in China in 2002 and killed several hundred people across the world.

On arrival, the Chinese health workers had their temperature taken and were made to wash their hands, a ritual adopted across the region as part of efforts to stem the disease.

Zhang said the establishment of the clinic in Liberia brought China's contribution to the anti-Ebola effort in the country to $122 million.

Before China's pledge to send 1,000 personnel, Cuba was the largest contributor of medical contingents to the crisis.

Both nations will see their teams work closely alongside the United States, which is providing much of the infrastructure of the international response.


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Doctor with Ebola Dies in Nebraska Hospital
« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2014, 09:11:25 PM »
Doctor with Ebola Dies in Nebraska Hospital
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By Megan Gannon  16 minutes ago



Dr. Martin Salia was a surgeon at the United Methodist Church's Kissy Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. After Dr. Salia was diagnosed with Ebola on Nov. 11, the hospital was closed, according to the United Methodist News Service.



A doctor who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone died early today (Nov. 17) while receiving treatment at a hospital in Nebraska.

Dr. Martin Salia was already suffering from "extremely advanced" symptoms of an Ebola infection, including kidney failure and respiratory failure, when he arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha on Saturday (Nov. 15), hospital representatives said.

"We used every possible treatment available to give Dr. Salia every possible opportunity for survival," Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the Biocontainment Unit at Nebraska Medical Center, said in a statement. "As we have learned, early treatment with these patients is essential."

Salia was the chief medical officer and surgeon at United Methodist Kissy Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, one of the countries in West Africa that has been hit hardest by the recent Ebola outbreak. Though Salia wasn't working in an Ebola treatment center, there are many people with Ebola in the area where he was treating patients, Smith told reporters today.

Salia was diagnosed with Ebola last week. By the time he arrived in Omaha late Saturday afternoon, Salia was much further into his illness than the two other Ebola patients who were successfully treated at Nebraska Medical Center. Salia was unresponsive, had no kidney function and was working hard to breathe, said Dr. Dan Johnson, head of the critical care division at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the hospital's academic partner.

Salia had to be put on dialysis within the first few hours of his arrival. Shortly after, he experienced complete respiratory failure and needed multiple treatments to help maintain even marginal blood pressure, Johnson said.

Late Saturday, Salia was given an experimental Ebola treatment known as ZMapp and a plasma transfusion from a patient who survived an Ebola infection. But Salia's condition deteriorated, and he died around 4 a.m. local time today.

"He progressed to the point of cardiac arrest, and we weren't able to get him through this," Johnson told reporters at a news conference. "We really, really gave it everything we could ... We wish there could have been a different outcome."

The White House extended its condolences to Salia's family and applauded the "heroic" efforts of the Nebraska Medical Center staff.

"Dr. Salia leaves behind loved ones in the United States, his adopted homeland, and in Sierra Leone, where he was born," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement. "Dr. Salia's passing is another reminder of the human toll of this disease and of the continued imperative to tackle this epidemic on the frontlines, where Dr. Salia was engaged in his calling."

The Ebola virus is spread through contact with an infected person's blood, feces or vomit. As a safety precaution, Salia's body will be cremated, hospital representatives said. Autopsies of people who died from Ebola are considered too hazardous for doctors to perform, but samples of Salia's blood will be sent to a secure lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for further analysis.

Smith said the hospital staff who treated Salia would maintain a self-isolation and self-monitoring program. Hospital employees will take their temperature twice a day and check for symptoms once a day, but, Smith added, "as long as they're asymptomatic, they're considered safe."

Salia is the second Ebola patient to have died from the infection in the United States. Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man, died in early October after being diagnosed with Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

"We're very grateful for the efforts of the team led by Dr. Smith," Isatu Salia, Martin Salia's wife, said in a statement. "In the short time we spent here, it was apparent how caring and compassionate everyone was. We are so appreciative of the opportunity for my husband to be treated here and believe he was in the best place possible."

Earlier this year, Salia spoke about why he took the job at the hospital, which is in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Freetown.

"I knew it wasn’t going to be rosy, but why did I decide to choose this job?" Salia said in an interview with the United Methodist News Service. "I firmly believe God wanted me to do it. And I knew deep within myself. There was just something inside of me that the people of this part of Freetown needed help."

The current Ebola outbreak is the worst in history. The World Health Organization reported last week that 14,413 people have become sick with Ebola, and 5,177 people have died of the infection since December 2013. The three most affected countries are Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.


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