Leader in Ebola Fight Dies of the Disease
From Times Wire Reports
Dr. Matthew Lokwiya, who led the fight against the deadly Ebola virus, himself became a victim of the outbreak. Lokwiya, who was in his early 40s, was one of the first to recognize that patients being admitted to Lacor Hospital in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu were suffering from a form of viral hemorrhagic fever, later identified as Ebola. After weeks of treating patients--and being credited for keeping the death toll remarkably low--Lokwiya became a patient himself Thursday. His death brings the outbreak’s toll to 156.
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