American volunteer in S. Leone admitted to NIH hospital for Ebola treatment
Xinhua, March 13, 2015 Adjust font size:
An American healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in Sierra Leone arrived Friday at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's (NIH) hospital near Washington DC for treatment, the NIH said.
A private charter medevac transferred the patient to NIH Clinical Center from Sierra Leone, where the person tested positive for the deadly virus while volunteering services in an Ebola treatment unit, the NIH said.
The agency gave no other details except that the patient's condition is still being evaluated.
The patient is the second with Ebola admitted to the NIH Clinical Center. An earlier patient, a nurse from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, was treated successfully and released free of disease.
The NIH Clinical Center also previously admitted two persons who experienced high-risk exposures to Ebola while working in West Africa, but who were ultimately found not to be infected.
The NIH Clinical Center has one of the few biocontainment units in the United States equipped to handle highly infectious diseases such as Ebola. Endite