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American Nurse Exposed to Ebola Virus in Sierra Leone Admitted at NIH Facility

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Getty 121114 NIH?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1418335847924Photo by Andrew Councill/MCT/MCT via Getty Images(BETHESDA, Md.) — An American nurse who was exposed to the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone was taken to the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center on Thursday for observation.

According to a release from the medical center, the patient was flown in from an overseas location by private medevac. The patient, who was not identified, was transported in isolation and admitted to the NIH Clinical Center at about 2:45 p.m. EST Thursday.

The patient was admitted to the center’s clinical studies unit, which has high-level isolation capabilities and is staffed by infectious disease and critical care specialists, “out of an abundance of caution.”

Dallas nurse Nina Pham was treated for Ebola at the NIH facility after being exposed to the disease while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die of Ebola in America.


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