REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, NEBRASKA -- A surgeon from Sierra Leone has died of Ebola at the Nebraska hospital where he was being treated after arriving from West Africa over the weekend, the hospital said on Monday.

Dr. Martin Salia, a permanent U.S. resident, contracted the virus while working in a Freetown hospital, according to his

family.

He was suffering from advanced symptoms, including kidney and respiratory failure, when he arrived at the Nebraska

Medical Center on Saturday, the hospital said in a statement.

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