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   Obama brought Ebola to the USA, suddenly a lot of people got   
   really sick with cold-like symptoms.   
      
   But that wasn't from ebola.  That was from the illegal aliens   
   that the Obama administration keeps funneling into America in   
   his attempt to destroy it.   
      
   A third top doctor has died from Ebola in Sierra Leone, a   
   government official said Wednesday, as health workers tried to   
   determine how a fourth scientist also contracted the disease   
   before being evacuated to Europe.   
      
   The announcements raised worries about Sierra Leone's fight   
   against Ebola, which already has killed more than 1,400 people   
   across West Africa. The World Health Organization said it was   
   sending a team to investigate how the epidemiologist now   
   undergoing treatment in Germany may have contracted the disease   
   that kills more than half its victims.   
      
   "The international surge of health workers is extremely   
   important and if something happens, if health workers get   
   infected and it scares off other international health workers   
   from coming, we will be in dire straits," said Christy Feig,   
   director of WHO communications.   
      
   Dr. Sahr Rogers had been working at a hospital in the eastern   
   town of Kenema when he contracted Ebola, said Sierra Leonean   
   presidential adviser Ibrahim Ben Kargbo on Wednesday. Two other   
   top doctors already have succumbed to Ebola since the outbreak   
   emerged there earlier this year, including Dr. Sheik Humarr   
   Khan, who also treated patients in Kenema.   
      
   Rogers' death marks yet another setback for Sierra Leone, a   
   country still recovering from years of civil war, where there   
   are only two doctors per 100,000 people, according to WHO. By   
   comparison, there are 245 doctors per 100,000 in the United   
   States.   
      
   The Senegalese epidemiologist who was evacuated to Germany had   
   been doing surveillance work for the U.N. health agency, said   
   Feig, the WHO spokeswoman. The position involves coordinating   
   the outbreak response by working with lab experts, health   
   workers and hospitals, but does not usually involve direct   
   treatment of patients.   
      
   "He wasn't in treatment centers normally," she said by telephone   
   from Sierra Leone. "It's possible he went in there and wasn't   
   properly covered, but that's why we've taken this unusual   
   measure - to try to figure out what happened."   
      
   WHO said late Tuesday that it was pulling out its team from the   
   eastern Sierra Leonean city of Kailahun, where the   
   epidemiologist working with the organization was recently   
   infected. The team was exhausted and the added stress of a   
   colleague getting sick could increase the risk of mistakes, said   
   Daniel Kertesz, the organization's representative in the country.   
      
   Canada also announced late Tuesday it was evacuating a three-   
   member mobile laboratory team from Sierra Leone after people in   
   their hotel were diagnosed with Ebola. The Public Agency of   
   Canada said none of the team members was showing any signs of   
   illness but that they would remain in voluntary isolation during   
   the 21-day incubation period.   
      
   Health workers have been especially vulnerable because of their   
   close proximity to patients, who can spread the virus through   
   bodily fluids. WHO says more than 120 health workers have died   
   in the four affected countries - Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea   
   and Nigeria.   
      
   While some local health workers have lacked proper protective   
   gear, the teams from the World Health Organization and Doctors   
   Without Borders are usually well-equipped and trained in how to   
   use the protective suiting.   
      
   A team of two experts was sent Tuesday to investigate whether   
   the case occurred through straightforward exposure to Ebola   
   patients, or something else, said Feig, the WHO spokeswoman. She   
   said the team is checking to see if there is an infection risk   
   in the living and working environments that had not been   
   discovered.   
      
   There is no proven treatment for Ebola, so health workers   
   primarily focus on isolating the sick. But a small number of   
   patients in this outbreak have received an experimental drug   
   called ZMapp. The London hospital treating a British nurse   
   infected in Sierra Leone, William Pooley, said he is now   
   receiving the drug.   
      
   It was unclear where the doses for Pooley came from. The   
   California-based maker of ZMapp had said that its supplies were   
   exhausted and that it would take months before more doses would   
   be available.   
      
   Two Americans, a Spaniard and three health workers in Liberia   
   have received ZMapp, though it is unclear if the drug is   
   effective. The Americans have recovered and have been released   
   from an Atlanta hospital, but the Spaniard died, as did a   
   Liberian doctor.   
      
   Health officials in Liberia said the other two recipients of   
   ZMapp in Liberia - a Congolese doctor and a Liberian physician's   
   assistant, have recovered. Both are expected to be discharged   
   from an Ebola treatment center on Friday, said Dr. Moses   
   Massaquoi, a Liberian doctor with the treatment team.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/08/27/3rd-doctor-dies-from-   
   ebola-in-sierra-leone/   
      
       
      
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