Ebola suspected in U.N. staffer?s death in Liberia

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UN SAYS 1ST STAFFER DIES OF 'PROBABLE' EBOLA
BY CARA ANNA
ASSOCIATED PRESS

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United Nations said Wednesday a staff member in Liberia has died from "probable Ebola," while the World Health Organization said it was optimistic that an Ebola vaccine could be available for mass vaccination campaigns as early as 2015.

The spokesman for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters that the death of the Liberian national is the first of a U.N. staffer in the outbreak that he is aware of.

Stephane Dujarric said the staffer was working with the U.N. mission in that country. The secretary-general's special representative there told reporters in the capital, Monrovia, on Wednesday that the staffer died last week.

"It is a sad reminder of the ever-present risk, and sobering for us as a mission and as the U.N. family," Karin Landgren said.

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Ebola suspected in U.N. staffer?s death in Liberia

Ebola Suspected in U.N. Staffer?s Death

By SOMINI SENGUPTAOCT. 1, 2014

UNITED NATIONS ? The United Nations lost its first staff member from what a spokesman for the organization on Wednesday called a ?probable? case of Ebola.

The victim, a Liberian woman, had worked for the peacekeeping mission in Liberia for nearly a decade, almost from the time the United Nations arrived in the country to help it rebuild after years of crippling civil war. She fell ill on Sept. 20 and died Monday, the United Nations said. A spokesman declined to give further details.
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