An American health care worker in West Africa “who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus” is being transported to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for observation and potential treatment.
In a statement released at 5:45 pm Eastern time tonight, officials indicated that the health care worker would be monitored in the hospital’s Serious Communicable Diseases Unit. No arrival time was released and no other patient information was available. The Emory statement stated that they, “cannot share more details out of respect for patient privacy and in accordance with the patient’s wishes.”….
….Emory, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland – have treated previous Ebola patients transported from West Africa. The fourth, at St. Patrick’s Hospital in Missoula, Montana, has yet to receive any patients.
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