Top Ebola Doctor Dies as Virus Spreads - 30,000 people to be traced

Sierra Leone's top doctor fighting an outbreak of Ebola has died from the virus, the country's chief medical officer, Brima Kargbo, said on Tuesday.
Sheik Umar Khan, who was credited with treating more than 100 patients, was infected with Ebola this month and had been moved to a treatment ward run by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres in the far north of the country.

It comes as Nigerian health officials are in the process of trying to trace 30,000 people thought to have come into contact directly or indirectly with a Liberian Ebola victim.

Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for Liberia's Finance Ministry, died on Friday after arriving at Lagos airport on June 20, having vomited and suffered diarrhoea on two flights.

The 40-year-old U.S. citizen had been to the funeral of his sister, who also died from the disease.

He was put in isolation at the First Consultants Hospital in Obalende, one of the most crowded parts of the
city, home to around 21 million people.
Mr Sawyer took two flights to reach Lagos, from Monrovia to Lome and then onto the Nigerian capital.

So far 59 people who came into contact with Mr Sawyer have been identified by Nigerian health officials, and are under surveillance.

But health officials have said they are looking at contacting 30,000 people who could be at risk of contracting the disease.

Professor Sunday Omilabu, from Lagos University Teaching Hospital,  said health officials are in the process of tracing all those people who are ...
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