Dr Sheik Humarr Khan who is Sierra Leone's chief ebola expert has been confirmed dead by health ministry officials.
Dr Khan had been praised as a national hero in Sierra Leone and has treated over 100 patients with ebola disease.
Following the move of the death of Liberian passenger who had travelled from Liberia to Nigeria, pan-African airline ASKY announced plans to suspend flights to and from the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Also Nigerian carrier Arik said it would halt direct flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone.
According to Daniel Meers, it starts as the common cold and ends with bleeding in your eyes, organs and from your skin. There is no treatment. No vaccine. No antibiotics.
Ebola virus is formed in fruit bats, and often transferred to monkeys by contaminated fruit they eat before humans become the "accidental carriers"of the virus. Humans can contract it by feeding on monkey meat or bats in African nations of if bitten by the animals.
It is described by experts as "highly contagious" once contracted by a human. Ebola is transferred between humans via bodily fluids, transfer of saliva or semen and even while the person has died, the virus can still be transferred.
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"Liberian finance ministry employee Patrick Sawyer died in the Nigerian port city of Lagos last week after contracting the disease from his sister. Despite showing early symptoms, Mr Sawyer flew on a commercial flight from Liberia to Nigeria, via Togo, dying five days later in Africa’s most populous city."
The Arwa clinic, closed after the clinic’s doctor became infected by the ebola virus in the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone / Picture: AFP Source: AP
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