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The Clinic St. Georg Leipzig (East Germany) prepares to receive tomorrow a worker of the United Nations from Liberia and infected by HIV and Ebola , the third patient Germany is receiving.
The Department of Social Affairs of the Federal State of Saxony today confirmed the arrival of the patient, even without revealing his identity or nationality.
A Ugandan doctor working in Sierra Leone for an NGO is isolated from Friday October 3 at the University Hospital of Frankfurt (West).
Emergency in Leipzig: Ebola patient from Liberia is treated in the Hospital St. Georg
Leipzig. The real thing is here: The Leipzig Hospital St. Georg is a record first Ebola patients. After LVZ information will land on Thursday morning the sick at Leipzig / Halle Airport.
There should be a high-ranking UN official, who comes from Liberia. Offices and agencies are involved and prepare their employees for this use before. Leipzig's St. Georg Hospital confirmed the facts on demand, without providing further details.
Leipzig in central Germany has about the only special isolation for infectious diseases. Under the highest safety precautions, the patient must be quarantined. In such cases, the disease usually occurs alarm plan in place.
The infection HCW's in the clinic are well equipped for emergencies such as the patients from West Africa . Regularly service personnel trains the processes to treat Ebola patients under quarantine .
The condition of the treated in Leipzig Ebola patient by his doctors as "highly critical, although stable" means. The 56-year-old UN staff was responsive. For other patients, the clinic or their visitors there is no risk of infection.
In Germany is the third time one of West Africa Ebola patient treated. The UN worker was taken on Thursday in Leipzig St. Georg Hospital, as the hospital announced. Doctors and authorities assured that the population there was no danger. Teams of the German Red Cross (DRK), meanwhile, met in Sierra Leone and Liberia to help prepare for Ebola sufferers site.
In the patients brought to Leipzig is reportedly a 56-year-old man from Sudan who had been infected with his work in Liberia with the often deadly virus. It was in a "stable but extremely critical condition," said the Chief physician, Thomas Gr?newald.
10 October 2014 - This is to clarify the facts regarding measures UNMIL has undertaken to ensure no further transmission of EVD after one of its medical personnel recently contracted the disease.
Following the discovery on 5 October that an UNMIL Medical staff member was symptomatic for Ebola, the Mission conducted robust contact tracing to ensure all people that came into contact with the staff member while they were symptomatic are assessed and isolated as necessary.
As a result of the rigorous contact tracing, 41 staff members who were possible contacts are under close medical observation, including 20 military personnel. This measure is precautionary and meant to ensure no possible further transmission of the disease. None of the personnel who are contacts have shown any symptoms but will be observed for the full 21-day possible incubation period.
Additional precautionary measures have included daily temperature checks and on-going screening at a military facility staffed by 209 personnel in Monrovia.
The mission is also extending the review of all of its actions initiated in the wake of its first, probable, case of EVD, late last month.
The UNMIL Medical staff member tested positive for Ebola on 06 October and is receiving treatment.
UNMIL will continue to do all that it can within its range of capabilities to help roll back the tragedy that is Ebola.
The Ebola patient in Leipzig is dead. The man has died in the night of Tuesday, said the Hospital St. Georg. It is a Sudanese UN staff who had been transported to Leipzig the last week. The 56-year-old had been infected with the Ebola virus while working in Liberia . The doctors had designated his condition as "highly critical, although stable" from his arrival .
Clinic: No risk to patients and staff
The man was the third Ebola patient, who had been brought to Germany. One is still treated in Frankfurt / Main, another was discharged well from a Hamburg hospital after five weeks of treatment. In Leipzig, the patient had been treated with the highest security on the special isolation of the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine. For other patients, visitors or the public there is no risk of infection, according to information of the clinic.
