Top Doctor Dies From Ebola After Treating Dozens

Author:
wochit
Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
29 July 2014
Tags:
Africa, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Health and Medicine

A leading doctor who risked his own life to treat dozens of Ebola patients died Tuesday from the disease, officials said, as a major regional airline announced it was suspending flights to the cities hardest hit by an outbreak that has killed more than 670 people. Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, who was praised as a national hero for treating the disease in Sierra Leone, was confirmed dead by health ministry officials there. He had been hospitalized in quarantine

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