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 The NIH said the patient will be transported in isolation by
chartered aircraft to its high-security containment facility on its
Maryland campus.
Earlier on Thursday, a British military healthcare worker infected
with the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone was flown to London for
treatment, and health officials said four more workers were being
assessed for possible infection.
The unidentified American will be admitted and treated at the NIH
Clinical Center's Special Clinical Studies Unit. The patient will be
the second confirmed Ebola patient to be treated at the facility,
which also took care of Texas nurse Nina Pham, who became infected
with Ebola while treating a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian
Hospital in Dallas.
In addition to the two confirmed patients, NIH has also cared for
two individuals who experienced high-risk exposures to Ebola while
working in West Africa, but who were subsequently found not to be
infected.
The NIH said it is not releasing any more details about the patient
at this time.
Ebola has now killed nearly 10,000 people in the three
worst-affected countries, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
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Rates of new infections have come down quickly in recent months,
however. Liberia last week released its last known Ebola patient
from hospital, but Sierra Leone still had 127 patients in Ebola
treatment centers as of March 10.
(Reporting by Julie Steenhuysen; Editing by Andre Grenon)
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