Sad News: United Nations worker hit with Ebola dies in Germany

This is getting real and more real every day!!!

A United Nations worker infected with Ebola has died in hospital in Germany.

The 56-year-old man landed in the eastern German town of Leipzig for treatment at the St Georg hospital five days ago, according to local officials.

Local health officials said last week that the patient was a Sudanese doctor who had arrived in Germany from Liberia.

He is the third person infected with Ebola to be treated in Germany.  

One of the others, from Senegal, was released in good health from a Hamburg clinic after five weeks' treatment and has returned to his home country. 

The other, a World Health Organization employee from Uganda, is still receiving treatment in Frankfurt after contracting the virus in Sierra Leone.

The man, who tested positive for the virus on October 6, landed shortly after 5am last Thursday in a modified Gulfstream jet equipped with an isolation chamber, Sky News reported.

He was met at the airport by a medical team in biohazard suits and two ambulances. 

Doctors pronounced his condition as 'highly critical, but stable,' at the time.

In a statement, the hospital said: 'The patient sick with Ebola fever died during the night in St Georg Clinic in Leipzig. Despite intensive medical measures and maximum efforts by the medical team, the 56-year-old UN employee succumbed to the serious infectious disease.' 

The World Health Organization estimates the death toll resulting from the worst outbreak of Ebola on record to have exceeded 4,000. It has called the outbreak 'most severe acute health emergency in modern times'.

In Liberia, the hardest-hit West African country, more than 2,300 people have died. The death toll in Sierra Leone and Guinea stands at nearly 1,000 respectively.

The death in Germany comes as Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told MPs it is 'likely' that Ebola will be seen in the UK and that a 'handful' of cases could be confirmed in the next three months.