I honestly cannot wait for this Ebola issue to be out of the news for good, Ebola has killed more than 3000 people in the past months .
CNN just reported that United Nations medical worker who was infected with Ebola while working in Liberia has died in Germany.
His death further raises questions of just how equipped health officials are in dealing with cases of the disease.
The 56-year-old man was Sudanese, a spokesman for the St. Georg hospital in Leipzig said Tuesday. He was being treated in a secure isolation ward there. And the clinic said last week that its doctors and medical staff were "perfectly prepared" for the task.
Following the man's death, Germany is treating only one other Ebola patient, according to St. Georg hospital spokesman Constantin Sauff.
The other patient is being treated in Frankfurt, he said. Another patient who was being treated in Hamburg has been as been discharged from hospital after recovering, Sauff said.
A Spanish nurse's assistant last week became the first person to contract the virus in Europe in the current outbreak.
And a nurse in Dallas, Texas, was confirmed as the first to have contracted the virus in the United States.
The nurse, Nina Pham, had cared for Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted Ebola in Liberia and died of the illness at the hospital.
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.
The nurse's assistant in Spain remains in critical condition and is having trouble breathing, authorities said. The European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said the Madrid hospital where Teresa Romero Ramos is being treated doesn't meet all the standards set for centers capable of Ebola care.
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