The patient was admitted to the hospital’s Clinical Center early Friday morning, according to a NIH statement, after being flown in isolation on a chartered plane from Sierra Leone, and is still under evaluation. No information on the patient’s name, age, and gender was released.
This would be the 10th person with Ebola to be treated in the US, and the second in the NIH Clinical Center. The hospital is one of three in the country built to prevent the spread of highly contagious diseases such as Ebola, and the Center’s Special Clinical Studies Unit is staffed by specialists in infectious diseases and clinical care. Nina Pham, the nurse who contracted Ebola a Dallas hospital, was also treated in the NIH facility. She survived and is Ebola-free.
While Ebola deaths have slowed in recent months, the World Health Organization estimated Thursday that the virus has killed more than 10,000 people. Most of the deaths were in the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
