Second aid worker infected with Ebola due to arrive in US from West Africa
Saudi Arabia tests man suspected of contracting Ebola in Sierra Leone
A second American aid worker infected with Ebola in West Africa is due to arrive in Atlanta on Tuesday in serious medical condition, while a New York hospital completes tests on a man for the deadly virus.
Missionary Nancy Writebol, 59, is expected to arrive on Tuesday to be treated by infectious disease specialists in a special isolation ward at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, according to Christian missionary group SIM USA.
Writebol took off from Liberia on Monday in a medical aircraft headed to Atlanta, according to a Reuters witness in that country.
The mother of two from Charlotte, North Carolina, is a longtime missionary who had been working for SIM USA as a hygienist tasked with decontaminating protective suits worn by healthcare workers inside an isolation unit at a Monrovia treatment centre.
Her arrival was to come a day after as Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan said it was testing a man who traveled to a West African nation where Ebola has been reported. He arrived at the emergency room in the morning on Monday with a high fever and a stomach ache, but was in “good condition”, hospital officials said.
The New York City Health Department, after consulting with the hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 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.”
