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                         UN Health Worker Dies of Ebola

   by VOA News

   A United Nations medical worker who contracted Ebola while working in
   Liberia has died at a German hospital.

   The St. Georg hospital in Leipzig said Tuesday the 56-year-old died
   overnight "despite intensive medical procedures."

   The U.N. Mission in Liberia announced last week its staff member tested
   positive for Ebola on October 6, and said that none of the 41 people
   who may have been in contact had shown any symptoms.

   Liberia has the most suspected and confirmed cases in the worst-ever
   outbreak of Ebola, with the total reaching at least 4,000.

   The World Health Organization (WHO) said the virus has killed more than
   2,300 people this year in Liberia, including 95 health workers.

   Liberia's Health Workers Association has demanded workers get extra
   hazard pay for potentially exposing themselves to Ebola. Despite calls
   for a strike, most health care workers reported to work on Monday.

   WHO chief Margaret Chan said Monday that Ebola poses a threat to the
   governments and societies of West Africa.

   In a statement to a health conference in the Philippines, Chan warned
   the number of cases is "rising exponentially" in Liberia, Guinea and
   Sierra Leone, and said the outbreak shows how the world is ill-prepared
   for a severe and sustained public health emergency.

   Other U.N. officials, including U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, have sounded
   similar warnings about the Ebola epidemic, which has killed more than
   4,000 people in West Africa.

   Meanwhile, the Public Health Agency of Canada said Monday that phase
   one clinical trials for an experimental Ebola vaccine have begun.

   It said the vaccine has shown great promise in animal research and will
   be tested at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in Maryland.
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