Ebola Now Hits UK As 6 Nurses Dies And Another One Person Dies On Alighting Plane In Gatwick.

Six nurses have died from deadly Ebola in the UK according to a  British aid worker who added that she has seen the horror of battling with  the fast moving epidemic. Sanitation expert Cokie van der Velde, 54, spent last week helping with charity Medecins Sans Frontieres at a treatment centre in Liberian capital Monrovia and a hospital isolation ward three hours away. And the grandmother revealed that six of the nurses she worked with have died from the virus.Yesterday Cokie, of Whixley, North Yorkshire, said: “It is heartbreaking to see such brave people perishing at the hands of this awful disease.” The recent outbreak, the largest recorded in history, began in Guinea and spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, killing more than 700 people. The World Health Organisation said that 60 medics had so far died in West Africa, falling ill as they bravely battled to save other people. Meanwhile, American aid workers Dr Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, who were infected as they helped patients in Liberia, were last night being flown home for treatment.  Elsewhere a  passenger died at Gatwick after getting off a glight fromm Sierra Leone Airport staff tonight told of their fears of an Ebola outbreak after a passenger from Sierra Leone collapsed and died as she got off a plane at Gatwick. Workers said they were terrified the virus could spread globally through the busy international hub from the West African country which is in the grip of the deadly epidemic. The woman, said to be 72, became ill on the gangway after she left a Gambia Bird jet with 128 passengers on board. She died in hospital on Saturday. Ebola has killed 256 people in Sierra Leone.  The government of Liberia has ordered that bodies of Ebola victims must be cremated and not buried. 

 Source: mirror.co.uk

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