Another Ebola infected aid worker brought to U.S. for treatment
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Another U.S. health worker has become infected with the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
3/13/2015 (9 years ago)
Published in U.S.
Keywords: Ebola, Health, Africa, International, Nigeria, Liberia, World Health Organization, U.S.
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The individual remains unidentified but a statement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reported that he was safely brought back into the U.S. on March 13, where he will be treated at the National Institutes of Health hospital just outside Washington in Bethesda, Maryland.
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The infected American had been working as a volunteer at an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone, but in the U.S. will be treated in a Special Clinical Studies Unit, a high-level medical facility that is run by the NIH. This worker is the second American to come down with this often-fatal disease to be treated at the facility.
The first was Nina Pham, a nurse who worked at a Dallas hospital who was treating Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who was infected, and later died at the hospital she worked at back in October of 2014.
Pham made a full recovery, as have most people who were infected with the disease who have received treatment in the U.S., of 10 who have been infected, only two have died.
As of March 12, the total number of Ebola cases in the west African nations of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia has reached 24,350. Of these cases, 10,004 people have died within the epidemic's first year.
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