Sierra Leone - 5th doctor tests positive for ebola - Died

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http://www.independent.ie/world-news/doctor-tests-positive-for-ebola-30711520.html

The country's government chief medical officer Dr Brima Kargbo confirmed today that a fifth doctor has tested positive.

The other four all have died from the virus that has killed nearly 5,000 across West Africa.
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Re: Sierra Leone - 5th doctor tests positive for ebola - Died

Umaru Fofana ‏@UmaruFofana 17m17 minutes ago

#Ebola kills 5th #SierraLeone doctor as Dr Godfrey George succumbed this morning 2 days after he tested +, chief medical officer confirms.

 

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Re: Sierra Leone - 5th doctor tests positive for ebola - Died

Sierra Leone Says Another Doctor Dies of Ebola

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone ? Nov 3, 2014, 7:46 AM ET

By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY

A doctor in Sierra Leone has died of Ebola ? the fifth local doctor in the West African nation to die of the disease, authorities said Monday.

Dr. Godfrey George, medical superintendent of Kambia Government Hospital in northern Sierra Leone, died overnight, according to Sierra Leone's government.

George's death, which was announced by Dr. Brima Kargbo, Sierra Leone's chief medical officer, was a blow to efforts to keep desperately needed health care workers safe in a country ravaged by the deadly virus.

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