A surgeon from Sierra Leone who was being treated for Ebola in the US has died, a Nebraska hospital announced.
Martin Salia, who has US residency and is married to an American, arrived for treatment in the state on Saturday, in a critical condition.
And on Monday morning the hospital said the 44-year-old had died.
More than 5,000 people have died in the current Ebola outbreak - almost all of them in West Africa. Dr Salia is the second person to die in the US.
Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan died in Dallas last month after contracting the virus in Monrovia.
The national state of emergency in Liberia ended last week and on Sunday, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said she hoped the country would be free of the virus by Christmas.
Dr Salia was in a critical condition when he arrived at the hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, unable to walk.
"We are extremely sorry to announce that the third patient we've cared for with the Ebola virus, Dr Martin Salia, has passed away as a result of the advanced symptoms of the disease," said the Nebraska Medical Center in a statement.
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