Mon Mar 16, 2015 5:28am IST
(Updates with background on mandatory quarantines)
By Brendan O'Brien
March 15 (Reuters) - Four Americans who may have beenexposed to the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone have arrivedin the United States and are being observed at the University ofNebraska Medical Center, the hospital said on Sunday.
The individuals arrived on Saturday and are being housed onthe University of Nebraska Medical Center campus in Omaha, wheremedical personnel will monitor them for 21 days for any Ebolasymptoms, hospital spokesman Taylor Wilson said.
"They're not sick and not contagious," Wilson said.
A U.S. healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola whilein Sierra Leone arrived at the National Institutes of Health inMaryland on Friday and was in serious condition, the NIH said.
The people under observation in Nebraska are among at least10 Americans flown to the United States by non-commercial airtransport who may have been exposed to the unidentified Ebolapatient in Sierra Leone or had a similar exposure to the virusas the patient.
While the virus has killed about 10,000 people in SierraLeone, Liberia and Guinea, only a handful of cases have beenseen in the United States, Spain and Britain, almost all of themcontracted in West Africa.
A debate in the United States arose last fall on howmandatory quarantines in a number of states for health workersreturning from Ebola-ravaged West African countries couldpotentially discourage potential medical volunteers.
Wilson said he could not provide the genders of any of thepatients in Nebraska or any other details about them.
The other individuals are expected to be monitored at theNIH or at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the CDC said.
CDC officials and officials in Maryland and Atlanta were notimmediately available for comment on Sunday.
The CDC had said all the individuals who were being flownback to the United States were free of symptoms.
On Friday, CDC sent a team to Sierra Leone to investigatehow the healthcare worker had become infected, and determine whomight have been in contact with the worker. (Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by KevinLiffey and Eric Walsh)
(Updates with background on mandatory quarantines)
By Brendan O'Brien
March 15 (Reuters) - Four Americans who may have beenexposed to the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone have arrivedin the United States and are being observed at the University ofNebraska Medical Center, the hospital said on Sunday.
The individuals arrived on Saturday and are being housed onthe University of Nebraska Medical Center campus in Omaha, wheremedical personnel will monitor them for 21 days for any Ebolasymptoms, hospital spokesman Taylor Wilson said.
"They're not sick and not contagious," Wilson said.
A U.S. healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola whilein Sierra Leone arrived at the National Institutes of Health inMaryland on Friday and was in serious condition, the NIH said.
The people under observation in Nebraska are among at least10 Americans flown to the United States by non-commercial airtransport who may have been exposed to the unidentified Ebolapatient in Sierra Leone or had a similar exposure to the virusas the patient.
While the virus has killed about 10,000 people in SierraLeone, Liberia and Guinea, only a handful of cases have beenseen in the United States, Spain and Britain, almost all of themcontracted in West Africa.
A debate in the United States arose last fall on howmandatory quarantines in a number of states for health workersreturning from Ebola-ravaged West African countries couldpotentially discourage potential medical volunteers.
Wilson said he could not provide the genders of any of thepatients in Nebraska or any other details about them.
The other individuals are expected to be monitored at theNIH or at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the CDC said.
CDC officials and officials in Maryland and Atlanta were notimmediately available for comment on Sunday.
The CDC had said all the individuals who were being flownback to the United States were free of symptoms.
On Friday, CDC sent a team to Sierra Leone to investigatehow the healthcare worker had become infected, and determine whomight have been in contact with the worker. (Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by KevinLiffey and Eric Walsh)
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