Ebola Claims Second Top Doctor In A Week

Revelation 6:7,8 NCV When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!"8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill people by war, by starvation, by disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.

The top doctor in Sierra Leone leading the fight against Ebola has died less than a week after contracting the virus.  The death of Sheik Umar Khan comes less than a week after the death of the top doctor fighting the virus in Liberia.

“It is a big and irreparable loss to Sierra Leone as he was the only specialist the country had in viral hemorrhagic fevers,” said Sierra Leone’s chief medical officer, Brima Kargbo.

The 39-year-old Khan is being called a “national hero” by the government for his refusal to avoid being on the front lines to help victims of the virus.  Khan died just hours before the President of the country was arriving to check on his condition.

The Ebola outbreak has now officially killed 672 people in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone but local officials say the toll is much higher because of families that are not bringing their sick relatives to medical facilities.  The isolation of the family members is being seen as oppressive by many of the more rural residents of those countries.

Guinea has reported that a new cluster of cases has developed in a mining town in the eastern part of the country and a new isolation ward had to be set up in Siguiri to handle the patients.

Also, some airlines have stopped flights into the countries after an American man who was in Liberia died in Nigeria from the virus after flying after being infected by his sister.

One thought on “Ebola Claims Second Top Doctor In A Week

  1. Hmmmm aids first was discovered to be epidemic in Africa and contracted first from a monkey. Why is Africa the country that has so many deadly epidemic diseases? just wondering

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