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His death further raises questions of just how equipped health officials are in dealing with cases of the disease.
The 56-year-old man was
Sudanese, a spokesman for the St. Georg hospital in Leipzig said
Tuesday. He was being treated in a secure isolation ward there. And the
clinic said last week that its doctors and medical staff were "perfectly
prepared" for the task.
Following the man's
death, Germany is treating only one other Ebola patient, according to
St. Georg hospital spokesman Constantin Sauff.
The other patient is
being treated in Frankfurt, he said. Another patient who was being
treated in Hamburg has been as been discharged from hospital after
recovering, Sauff said.
A Spanish nurse's assistant last week became the first person to contract the virus in Europe in the current outbreak.
And a nurse in Dallas, Texas, was confirmed as the first to have contracted the virus in the United States.
The nurse, Nina Pham, had cared for Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted Ebola in Liberia and died of the illness at the hospital.
Liberia is one of the
countries worst affected by the deadly virus, along with Sierra Leone
and Guinea. The World Health Organization estimates more than 4,000
people have died from confirmed or suspected cases of the virus.
The nurse's assistant in
Spain remains in critical condition and is having trouble breathing,
authorities said. The European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
said the Madrid hospital where Teresa Romero Ramos is being treated
doesn't meet all the standards set for centers capable of Ebola care.
In a scathing letter
distributed Monday, Javier Limon, her husband, said she received only 30
minutes of training in putting on protective gear and called for the
resignation of Madrid's regional health minister over how the case has
been handled.
Source; CNN
