Berlin, October 16 (RHC)-- A United Nations employee who contracted the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa has died after arriving in Germany for medical treatment, a report says. A Sudanese doctor, who had arrived in Germany from Liberia last week, died Monday night, according to a brief statement issued in Berlin.

“Despite intensive medical care and the best efforts by medical staff, the 56-year-old UN employee succumbed to the serious infection,” it noted.

Germany has previous treated two other Ebola patients infected in Sierra Leone, despite growing fears at the time of a potential outbreak of the deadly disease in Europe.

The patients included a Senegalese who was treated in Hamburg and released on October 4th, and a Ugandan doctor currently undergoing treatment in Frankfurt.

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned last week that the spread of the Ebola virus across Europe is almost inevitable. The WHO made the comments just hours after Europe's first case of Ebola infection was confirmed in Spain.