The Guardain UK reports that a surgeon working in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown to Nebraska for treatment, according to a US government source.
The surgeon, 44year –old Dr Martin Salia, is a citizen of Sierra Leone but also a legal permanent US resident, .
If the case is confirmed the doctor will be the third Ebola patient at the Omaha hospital and the 10th person with Ebola to be treated in the US. The most recent, Dr Craig Spencer, was released from a New York hospital on Tuesday
According to the report. Salia is a general surgeon who has been working at Kissy United Methodist hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He came down with symptoms of Ebola on 6 November but test results were negative for the virus. He was tested again on Monday and the results were positive. He was in a stable condition at an Ebola treatment centre in Freetown.
The Nebraska Medical Centre is one of four US hospitals with specialized treatment units for people with highly dangerous infectious diseases.
It was chosen for the latest patient because workers at units at Atlanta’s Emory University hospital and the National Institutes of Health near Washington are still in a 21-day monitoring period.
Those hospitals treated two Dallas nurses who were infected while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who fell ill with Ebola shortly after arriving in the US.
Salia is expected to arrive in the US Saturday 15th, November 2014.
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