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Ebola outbreak: UN health worker dies in Germany hospital─── 13:57 Tue, 14 Oct 2014
Leipzig - A United Nations medical worker infected with Ebola has died at a hospital in Germany.
BBC News reports that doctors at the hospital in Leipzig said the man, 56, originally from Sudan, died despite receiving experimental drugs to treat the virus.
The outbreak has killed more than 4 000 people since March - mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria.
The World Health Organization says the outbreak is the "the most severe, acute health emergency in modern times".
What's happening elsewhere
The US and UK are among countries to have introduced scanning at airports
The US and UK are among countries to have introduced scanning at airports
A unit of Sierra Leone's international peacekeeping force on standby for deployment in Somalia has been placed in quarantine after one member was confirmed with Ebola
A Spanish nurse remains in critical condition after becoming the first person to contract the disease outside of Africa last week, although doctors say there are signs of improvement
UN Ebola mission leader Tony Banbury has called for massive support from governments worldwide, saying: "We need everything... we need it everywhere, and we need it super fast."
In sealed ward
According to the report the man had been working as a UN medical official in Liberia - one of the worst affected countries - when he caught Ebola.
He arrived in Germany last Thursday for treatment and was put into a hermetically sealed ward, accessed through airlock systems.
He was the second member of the UN team in Liberia to die from the virus, the BBC's Jenny Hill in Berlin says.
He was the third Ebola patient to be treated for the deadly virus in Germany after contracting the disease in the outbreak zone in West Africa.
Screening passengers
London's Heathrow airport is to start screening passengers arriving from the worst affected countries.
One patient - a Ugandan doctor infected in Sierra Leone - is still receiving treatment in a hospital in Frankfurt, while a Senegalese aid worker was released from a hospital in Hamburg after five weeks of treatment.
The WHO says it is alarmed by the number of health workers who have been exposed to the disease.
It has warned the epidemic threatens the "very survival" of societies and could lead to failed states.
