Doctor Sierra Leone becomes the second died of Ebola in USA

The surgeon Martin Salia, who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone, today became the second died from the virus in the US, a country where he lived and had returned in critical condition for treatment in central Nebraska where two other patients were cured.

Ten patients have been treated Ebola on US soil and two of them have died: Salia Liberian citizen and Eric Duncan Thomas, who arrived in Dallas (Texas) in September to marry his fiancee, incubating disease virus unknowingly and died on October 8 at a hospital in that city.

The health status of Salia, 44, was "extremely critical" when he joined Saturday at Nebraska Omaha Medical Center "and unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we could not save his life", reported Phil Smith, medical director of the institution, in a statement.

The surgeon was working at a hospital in Sierra Leone when Ebola was diagnosed last week.

Salia resided with his wife and two children in a suburb of New Carrollton (Maryland), just outside of Washington, but often traveled to West Africa, according to his family.

When he joined the Nebraska Medical Center, the surgeon suffered some "advanced" symptoms of illness, including respiratory failure and kidney, and received dialysis and other medications to help your body fight the virus.

"We use all available treatments," Smith said in detailing the doctor received a plasma transfusion Survivor Ebola and also was administered the experimental drug ZMapp with which they were treated several people who have themselves passed the disease.

After learning of the death of Salia, the White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in a statement praised the "heroic efforts" of the Nebraska Medical Center to try to save team.

In fact, in the same center were hospitalized two other patients who contracted Ebola in Liberia, Rick Sacra doctor and cameraman Mukpo Ashoka, and both were cured.

Salia leave their loved ones in the US, "his adopted country" and "devoted his life to save others," he said spokesman US President Barack Obama, noting that his death is a reminder that it is "must "combat Ebola in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, the countries most affected by the outbreak, which has already caused 14,000 infections, 5,000 of them fatal.

A few days before the arrival of Salia was discharged the last of Ebola patients remained hospitalized in the country: Dr. Craig Spencer, who was hospitalized in New York after being caught in Guinea.

So far, there have been only two infections on American soil: the nurses Amber Vinson and Nina Pham, who attended at the Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas to the late Duncan.

Both beat Ebola and Pham was even received in the Oval Office for Obama, who wanted to be photographed hugging nurse to reassure the public about the doubts and fears about HIV transmission.

To prevent an outbreak of the virus in the US nationwide from October into five major airports in the country-the New York JFK, Newark (New Jersey), Washington Dulles, Chicago and Atlanta takes her temperature passengers from West Africa .

In addition, travelers from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia can only enter the US by plane mentioned those five airports, as it also applies from today passengers from Mali because of the recent confirmed cases of Ebola there.

Despite calls from some lawmakers, especially Republicans, Obama has ruled out suspending flights from West Africa.

According to a survey released today by consulting firm Gallup, Ebola among the three major health concerns of Americans.