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US treatment set for 4th Ebola patient
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A FOURTH Ebola patient arrived in the United States from West Africa yesterday, headed to the same Atlanta hospital where two other people were successfully treated for the disease.
An air ambulance carrying the new patient landed yesterday morning at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Atlanta television station WSB-TV footage showed.
Emory University Hospital confirmed it would be treating the patient, who was not identified.
The hospital said in an earlier statement that the patient would be treated in the same isolation unit for serious infectious diseases where US missionaries Nancy Writebol and Dr Kent Brantly also received care for the lethal virus before being discharged last month.
Another American missionary, Dr Rick Sacra, was also transported to the US from West Africa after becoming infected with Ebola in Liberia. He is being treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
Medical workers have been hit hard by the epidemic, the worst since Ebola was discovered in 1976. As of late August, more than 240 healthcare workers had developed the disease and more than 120 had died, the WHO said.
The outbreak has claimed nearly 2,300 lives, the World Health Organization said yesterday, stressing that nearly half had died in less than a month. As of September 6, 2,288 people had died in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Libera out of 4,269 cases, the UN’s health agency said.
WHO staff battling an Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone are working in larger quarters and no longer live with people from other agencies, after a scientist with the UN group was infected with the dreaded disease last month, a spokeswoman said yesterday.
A second WHO health care worker, a doctor, has now also been infected in Sierra Leone, the UN health agency announced on Monday.
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