Sheik Umar Khan, a prominent doctor instrumental in the fight to contain the virus in Sierra Leone, has died today, roughly one week after the government disclosed that he had contracted the virus.
The
news comes after a Liberian doctor died of the virus over the weekend and two Americans, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, continued to struggle under intensive care in Monrovia, Liberia.
Meanwhile, the Lagos hospital where a patient died from Ebola has been evacuated and quarantined. The death was the first reported case to reach Nigeria, Africa's most populated country.
Reuters
reports that the patient, Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for Liberia’s finance ministry, collapsed shortly after his flight landed at Lagos airport on July 20. He died while in treatment at First Consultants Hospital, Obalende.