American Ebola Patient’s Condition Improves to Fair
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NIH(BETHESDA, Md.) — An American health care worker who is being treated for the Ebola virus at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland continues to show improvement.
The NIH announced on Monday that the patient’s condition has been upgraded from serious to fair.
The patient, who has not been identified, contracted the disease while volunteering at an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone. The patient was flown in isolation on a chartered plane back to the states and admitted to the clinical center on March 12.
The patient is the second to receive treatment at the NIH Clinical Center. The first, Dallas nurse Nina Pham, contracted the virus while treating Thomas Eric Duncan.
Pham was the first person to catch Ebola on U.S. soil in connection with the outbreak in West Africa. She was admitted to the NIH facility in October and later released Ebola-free.
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