{"id":99177,"date":"2015-03-13T13:28:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T13:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=99177"},"modified":"2015-03-13T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T13:28:18","slug":"american-who-contracted-ebola-arrives-at-hospital-for-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/03\/american-who-contracted-ebola-arrives-at-hospital-for-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"American\u00a0who contracted Ebola arrives\u00a0at hospital for treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
An American 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.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”y2XUOB3lmOMREuTFlQA6QA3u89jPEt2d”]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.<\/p>\n
“The patient\u2019s condition is still being evaluated,” it said.<\/p>\n
NIH said it was not releasing details about the patient, the 11th with the virus to be treated in the United States.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
It also cared for two people who were exposed to Ebola while working in West Africa, but were later found not to be infected.<\/p>\n
Several infected Americans working in West Africa, the center of the Ebola outbreak, have returned to the United States for treatment since last summer.<\/p>\n
The virus has killed nearly 10,000 people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.<\/p>\n
A British healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola while in Sierra Leone was flown back this week to Britain along with four others who will be monitored as a precaution.<\/p>\n
The U.S. patient arrived Friday just before 5:00 a.m. EDT and is being treated at the NIH Clinical Center’s Special Clinical Studies Unit at the agency’s campus in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington.<\/p>\n
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Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An American 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. [contextly_sidebar id=”y2XUOB3lmOMREuTFlQA6QA3u89jPEt2d”]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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":99178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[15,38,14],"yoast_head":"\n