Mali doctor dies from Ebola virus

An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola while working for a charity in Sierra Leone is being flown back to Rome for treatment, officials say.

A surgeon from Sierra Leone who was being treated for Ebola in the US has died, a Nebraska hospital announces.

Another doctor has died from the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone.

The doctor who spearheaded the fight against Ebola has died after becoming infected from treating patients. Shortly before his death Dr Khan spoke to the BBC's Umaru Fofana.

A Spanish missionary who contracted Ebola in Liberia dies in hospital in Spain, officials say, as the virus claims more than 1,000 lives in West Africa.

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Australian Catherine Hamlin helped women treated like "modern-day lepers" after giving birth.

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