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.
The man had tested positive for ebola on 6 October and was put into a special isolation unit when he arrived in Germany three days later. Last week it was reported that he was a Sudanese doctor.
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."
He was the third ebola patient to be taken to Germany. One of the others, a Senegalese expert, has been released from hospital in Hamburg and the other, a Ugandan doctor, is still receiving treatment in Frankfurt.
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". It is spread through close contact with bodily fluids.
The death in Germany comes as a battalion of 800 Sierra Leone soldiers awaiting deployment as peacekeepers in Somalia was placed in quarantine after one of them tested positive for ebola.
Meanwhile, the UK has begun 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.
Ebola screening has already been taking place at airports in the US where health officials have been on heightened alert after a nurse in Texas contracted ebola while treating a dying patient.
Nina Pham's case marked the first transmission of the deadly virus on American soil.
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Gallery: Red Cross Ebola Training In Germany
A volunteer doctor who will travel to West Africa to help care for Ebola patients puts on an isolation suit during training offered by the German Red Cross
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A volunteer doctor who will travel to West Africa to help care for Ebola patients puts on an isolation suit
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Over 1,200 people across Germany have responded to a DRK call for volunteers, while the German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, has also asked for volunteers from its own ranks
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Countries around the world are taking increasing precautions and committing resources in the battle against the deadly virus as the number of victims continues to climb. Continue through for more images
US and UN leaders have called for "more robust" international efforts to tackle the ebola crisis.
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