U.S. healthcare worker
with Ebola arrives in U.S.: NBC
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[March 13, 2015]
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. healthcare
worker who tested positive for the Ebola virus while working in Sierra
Leone arrived in the United States for treatment on Friday, U.S. health
officials said.
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The patient, who was transported in isolation by chartered aircraft,
was admitted to the U.S. National Institutes of Health's
high-security containment facility in Maryland, NIH said in a
statement.
"The patient’s condition is still being evaluated," it said.
NIH last year treated Texas nurse Nina Pham, who became infected
with the Ebola virus while working with a patient at Texas Health
Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. She subsequently recovered.
It also cared for two people who were exposed to Ebola while working
in West Africa, but were later found not to be infected.
Several infected Americans working in West Africa, the center of the
Ebola outbreak, have returned to the United States for treatment
since last summer. The virus has killed nearly 10,000 people in
Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
The unidentified American arriving Friday is being treated at the
NIH Clinical Center's Special Clinical Studies Unit at the agency's
campus in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington.
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(Additional reporting by Julie Steenhuysen; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
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