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 The patient is expected to arrive at Emory University Hospital early
Tuesday and will be treated in the same isolation unit as two other
patients who were discharged after recovering from the virus, the
hospital said in a statement.
The hospital did not provide any information on the new patient,
citing confidentiality rules.
The World Health Organization said earlier on Monday that one of its
doctors stationed in an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone had
tested positive for the disease.
The doctor was in stable condition in Freetown and would be
evacuated soon, the WHO said. The patient's name and nationality
were not disclosed in the statement.
Medical workers have been hit hard by the epidemic, the worst since
Ebola was discovered in 1976. As of late August, more than 240
healthcare workers had developed the disease and more than 120 had
died, the WHO said.
The outbreak has killed some 2,100 people overall in Guinea, Sierra
Leone, Liberia and Nigeria, and has also spread to Senegal.
A U.S. medical missionary infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia
is being treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where on
Monday he was able to eat breakfast and listen to music, his wife
said in a statement.
Two other U.S. missionaries who contracted the disease in Liberia in
July also were treated and released from Emory, where they were
given the experimental drug ZMapp.
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No more doses of ZMapp are available, and doctors have said it is
not clear whether the drug helped their recovery.
Emory's isolation unit is equipped with unique tools and
infrastructure that provide a high level of clinical isolation for
people exposed to serious infectious diseases, the hospital said.
(Reporting by Letitia Stein in Tampa, Florida, and Daniel Flynn in
Dakar; Writing by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Eric Beech and Eric
Walsh)
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