Ebola-infected surgeon in ‘critical state’

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.

Dr Martin Salia, 44, a permanent US resident, caught the disease while working as a surgeon in a Freetown hospital, according to his family.

Doctors at the Nebraska hospital said his condition was critical. He had been stable enough to take a flight from west Africa to Omaha but was too sick to walk off the plane, medical officials said.