Omaha, NE – Doctor With Ebola Dies

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    Dr. Martin Salia is placed on a stretcher upon his arrival at the Nebraska Medical Center Biocontainment Unit in Omaha, Nebraska, November 15, 2014. REUTERS/Brian C. FrankOmaha, NE – A Nebraska hospital says an Ebola patient being treated in its biocontainment unit has died.

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    Nebraska Medical Center said in a news release Monday that Dr. Martin Salia died as a result of the disease.

    Salia contracted Ebola while working as a surgeon in Sierra Leone. He arrived Saturday to be treated at the Omaha hospital, where two other Ebola patients have been successfully treated.

    Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people in West Africa. Salia was a citizen of Sierra Leone.

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    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    11 years ago

    There can be no better way to die than in the effort to save others.

    11 years ago

    All this PC garbage – he probably died in excruciating agony. THAT is heroic?

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    11 years ago

    What does pain matter? Doing the right thing matters.