Thursday 19 March 2015

EBOLA: TWO MORE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE WORKERS REPATRIATED FROM SIERRA LEONE FOR MONITORING


Two more US healthcare workers were on Wednesday repatriated to United States for monitoring, making it a total of 18 health care workers brought back to United States from Sierra Leone after their colleague tested positive to the Ebola Virus.

"They were part of the same group that have been coming back slowly", said CDC spokeswoman, Jennifer McQuiston.

The two health workers brought back to United States on Wednesday have not tested positive to the deadly Ebola virus but might have been exposed to a colleague who  contracted it and is critically ill.

The critically ill US health worker is presently being treated at a biocontainment unit run by the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, McQuiston said.

The US healthcare workers were employed by the aid group, Partners in Health, however their names have not been divulged.

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