A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in his native Sierra Leone has died in a US hospital.

A surgeon from Sierra Leone being treated for ebola in a Nebraska hospital on Saturday was critically ill after being airlifted back from Africa, medical officials said.

A US man who contracted Ebola while working as a freelance cameraman in Liberia has been flown back to his home country for treatment.

The first person to develop ebola in the US was struggling to survive at a Dallas hospital yesterday after his condition worsened to critical, the director of the US Centres for Disease Control said.

A man who opened fire at a busy department store in the US killing eight people, left a note predicting “Now I’ll be famous”.