A United Nations medical worker who was infected with Ebola while working in Liberia has died at a hospital in Germany.
The 56-year-old man was a Sudanese national, a spokesman for the St. Georg hospital in Leipzig told CNN Tuesday.
He was being treated in a secure isolation ward there. The clinic said last week that its doctors and medical staff were “perfectly prepared” for the task.
After the man’s death, Germany is treating only one other Ebola patient, said St. Georg hospital spokesman Constantin Sauff.
Liberia is one of the countries worst affected by the deadly virus, along with Sierra Leone and Guinea. The World Health Organization estimates more than 4,000 people have died from confirmed or suspected cases of the virus.