A United Nations employee infected with Ebola while working in West Africa has died in a German hospital.
The aid worker was taken to Germany after contracting the disease in Liberia and was being treated in hospital in Leipzig.
He was the third patient to be taken to the country and arrived five days ago. One of the others has been released from hospital and the other is still receiving treatment.
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 man had tested positive for Ebola on October 6th and was put into a special isolation unit when he arrived in Germany three days later.
The latest Ebola outbreak has so far killed more than 4,000 people, mainly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called it the "most severe acute health emergency in modern times".
The death in Germany comes as the UK began screening passengers for the virus at airports and a plane travelling from Dubai to Boston was quarantined after fears that some sick passengers had Ebola.
The WHO has given this backdrop to the current outbreak:
