Ebola-infected doctor dies in Nebraska hospital

LOS ANGELES TIMES                                                                                         Nov. 17, 2014
By Julie Westfall

Dr. Martin Salia, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and was being treated at a Nebraska hospital, has died, a hospital spokesman confirmed Monday.

Martin Salia, 44, was taken to Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha to be treated for Ebola after contracting the disease in Sierra Leone. (UBCentral.org)

"It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share this news," Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the biocontainment unit at Omaha's Nebraska Medical Center, said in a statement. "Dr. Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, and unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we weren't able to save him."

Salia was a member of the Church of the United Bretheren in Christ and was working as a surgeon at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, treating Ebola patients as the disease spread in West Africa.

In a statement, the Nebraska hospital said Salia's Ebola symptoms were very advanced by the time he arrived there on Saturday and that he was already in kidney and respiratory failure. His treatment included dialysis, blood plasma from Ebola survivors and the anti-Ebola drug ZMapp, the hospital said.

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