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| American health-care worker with Ebola virus arrives at NIH Bethesda | American health-care worker with Ebola virus arrives at NIH Bethesda |
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| The National Institutes of Health said Friday that an American health-care worker who tested positive for the Ebola virus while volunteering at a treatment unit in Sierra Leone has arrived safely at its Bethesda campus. | The National Institutes of Health said Friday that an American health-care worker who tested positive for the Ebola virus while volunteering at a treatment unit in Sierra Leone has arrived safely at its Bethesda campus. |
| This is the second time an American has contracted Ebola and been treated at a specially designed clinic at the NIH facility in Montgomery County. | This is the second time an American has contracted Ebola and been treated at a specially designed clinic at the NIH facility in Montgomery County. |
| In a statement issued Friday morning, NIH officials said the person was “transferred from Sierra Leone via private charter medevac in isolation” and admitted to the NIH Clinical Center at 4:44 a.m. | In a statement issued Friday morning, NIH officials said the person was “transferred from Sierra Leone via private charter medevac in isolation” and admitted to the NIH Clinical Center at 4:44 a.m. |
| The person’s name has not been released and no other information about the person has been revealed. In the Friday statement, NIH officials said the person’s condition is serious. | |
| The Special Clinical Studies Unit at NIH is designed to deal with infectious diseases. One other Ebola patient — Dallas nurse Nina Pham, who became the first person to get the disease on U.S. soil — was treated there. Pham got the disease while treating a patient. | The Special Clinical Studies Unit at NIH is designed to deal with infectious diseases. One other Ebola patient — Dallas nurse Nina Pham, who became the first person to get the disease on U.S. soil — was treated there. Pham got the disease while treating a patient. |
| The special unit at NIH has also admitted two other people who were exposed to the virus but did not get the disease. | The special unit at NIH has also admitted two other people who were exposed to the virus but did not get the disease. |
| The outbreak in West Africa has faded in recent months, but in the past week, Sierra Leone had registered a spike in new cases, the Associated Press reported. | The outbreak in West Africa has faded in recent months, but in the past week, Sierra Leone had registered a spike in new cases, the Associated Press reported. |
| Julie Zauzmer contributed to this report. | Julie Zauzmer contributed to this report. |