Fourth American with Ebola arrives in U.S. for treatment
Xinhua, September 9, 2014 Adjust font size:
A fourth American infected with Ebola arrived back home from West Africa on Tuesday morning and will be treated at an Atlanta hospital where the first two Americans successfully recovered.
A specially equipped plane carrying the patient touched down around 9:20 a.m. EDT (1320 GMT) at Dobbins Air Reserve Base outside Atlanta, U.S. media reported.
The new patient is reportedly a doctor with the World Health Organization, but no other information about the patient has been released.
Emory University Hospital said in a statement that the unidentified patient will be brought to the same isolation unit that cared for U.S. aid workers Nancy Writebol and Kent Brantly last month.
Both Writebol and Brantly contracted the deadly virus in West Africa and were later evacuated to the United States. The two successfully walked out of the hospital last month after receiving an experimental drug called ZMapp.
Fifty-one-year-old Rick Sacra, the third American aid worker infected with Ebola while working in Liberia, was evacuated back to the United States last week. He is being treating in Nebraska Medical Center's biocontainment unit, a facility specifically designed to care for patients with highly infectious diseases.
