A surgeon who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone died from the disease Monday at a Nebraska hospital, officials said.
Dr. Martin Salia, 44, arrived at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha on Saturday in extremely critical condition and was described as 'possibly sicker than the first patients successfully treated in the United States.' He had kidney and respiratory symptoms when he arrived, hospital officials said, and he was placed on dialysis, a ventilator and given medications to try and fight the lethal disease.
Salia, who lived in Maryland, is the second person to die of the disease on United States soil.
'It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share this news,' Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the Biocontainment Unit at 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 working as a general surgeon in Freetown, Sierra Leone and showed symptoms on Nov. 6, but did not test positive for Ebola until Nov. 10. He died a week later.
Hospital officials are expected to release more information later Monday.
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