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More Americans Evacuated from Sierra Leone after Ebola Scare

| March 15, 2015 Comment

More Americans Evacuated from Sierra Leone after Ebola Scare – Ten American aid workers who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus are being evacuated from Sierra Leone and will be quarantined near special isolation units, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.

The aid workers had been working at the US charity Partners in Health in Port Loko district of the north of the country.

One American health care worker is currently being treated for Ebola at National Institutes of Health outside Washington, and his condition is reported to be serious. NIH isn’t saying anything more about the patient, who was working in Sierra Leone, but health officials fear that he may have exposed others to the disease.

CDC said Friday that another American who was in close contact with the patient would be evacuated and monitored for the 21-day incubation period for Ebola near Emory University Hospital, which has a special isolation unit.

The CDC is continuing to investigate, and more aid workers will be evacuated if necessary.

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