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   OMAHA, Neb.— A surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra   
   Leone died Monday while being treated in a biocontainment unit   
   at a Nebraska hospital, the facility said.   
      
   Nebraska Medical Center said in a news release that Dr. Martin   
   Salia died as a result of the disease. Hospital spokesman Taylor   
   Wilson said Salia died shortly after 4 a.m. Monday.   
      
   “Dr. Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, and   
   unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we weren’t able to save   
   him,” said Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the   
   biocontainment unit.   
      
   Salia arrived Saturday to be treated at the Omaha hospital,   
   where two other Ebola patients have been successfully treated.   
   Salia had advanced symptoms when he arrived at the hospital   
   Saturday, which included kidney and respiratory failure, the   
   hospital said. He was placed on dialysis and a ventilator and   
   given several medications to support his organ systems.   
      
   “We used every possible treatment available to give Dr. Salia   
   every possible opportunity for survival,” Smith said. “As we   
   have learned, early treatment with these patients is essential.   
   In Dr. Salia’s case, his disease was already extremely advanced   
   by the time he came here for treatment.”   
      
   Salia’s wife, Isatu Salia, said Monday that she and her family   
   were grateful for the efforts made by her husband’s medical team.   
      
   “We are so appreciate of the opportunity for my husband to be   
   treated here and believe he was in the best place possible,”   
   Salia said.   
      
   Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people in West Africa, mostly   
   in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Five other doctors in   
   Sierra Leone have contracted Ebola, and all have died.   
      
   The 44-year-old Salia had been working as a general surgeon at   
   Kissy United Methodist Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital of   
   Freetown. It’s not clear whether he was involved in the care of   
   Ebola patients. Kissy is not an Ebola treatment unit, but Salia   
   worked in at least three other facilities, United Methodist News   
   said, citing health ministry sources.   
      
   Salia, a Sierra Leone citizen who lived in Maryland, first   
   showed Ebola symptoms Nov. 6 but tested negative for the virus.   
   He tested positive Nov. 10.   
      
   Isatu Salia said in a telephone interview over the weekend that   
   when she spoke to her husband early Friday, his voice sounded   
   weak and shaky. But he told her “I love you” in a steady voice,   
   she said.   
      
   They prayed together, she said, calling her husband “my   
   everything.”   
      
   http://nypost.com/2014/11/17/ebola-doctor-dies-in-nebraska/   
      
       
      
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