2nd Ebola patient back in US for treatment
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A plane carrying a second American aid worker infected with Ebola from West Africa arrived at a US military base in Atlanta yesterday for further treatment at a specially equipped hospital.
Nancy Writebol, 59, landed aboard a small medical evacuation plane. She was carried by ambulance to Emory University Hospital, where her colleague, missionary doctor Kent Brantly, is also receiving care.
Writebol’s arrival came a day after Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City said it was testing a man who traveled to a West African nation where Ebola has been reported. He arrived at the emergency room on Monday with a high fever and a stomach ache, but was in good condition.
The New York City Health Department said in a statement on Monday evening that “the patient is unlikely to have Ebola. Specimens are being tested for common causes of illness and to definitively exclude Ebola.”
The disease has killed nearly 900 people since February and has no proven cure. The death rate in the current epidemic is about 60 percent, experts say.
Writebol will be treated by infectious disease specialists in a special isolation ward at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
The mother of two from North Carolina is a longtime missionary who had been working for SIM USA as a hygienist who decontaminated protective suits worn by healthcare workers inside an isolation unit at a Monrovia treatment center.
Emory’s specialists have since last Saturday been treating 33-year-old Brantly, who also returned home after being stricken with Ebola during the emergency response to the worst outbreak on record of the virus.
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