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American Ebola patient getting better, doctors say | American Ebola patient getting better, doctors say |
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The condition of an American healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while fighting the outbreak in Sierra Leone has improved, doctors at the National Institutes of Health said on Thursday. | |
The agency downgraded the patient’s status from “critical” to “serious” on Thursday. The healthcare worker, who has not been identified, returned to the US earlier this month and is receiving treatment at an NIH hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, outside Washington DC. | The agency downgraded the patient’s status from “critical” to “serious” on Thursday. The healthcare worker, who has not been identified, returned to the US earlier this month and is receiving treatment at an NIH hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, outside Washington DC. |
The agency did not provide any more information. | The agency did not provide any more information. |
At least 16 American aid workers who are connected to or had direct physical contact with the patient receiving treatment in Maryland have returned from Sierra Leone to be monitored for signs of Ebola. None of them have been diagnosed with the disease, but they are being isolated and monitored for three weeks to watch for signs of the disease. | |
Improvement at this stage is notable, as the patient has appeared to clear the worst phase of the disease. Deaths from the disease typically occur six to 16 days after symptoms appear. The patient was admitted to the US hospital on 13 March. | |
This is the second Ebola sufferer to be treated at the NIH Clinical Center. A nurse who became infected while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with the disease in the US, at a Texas hospital. Duncan later died at the hospital. The nurse recovered and was released free of the disease. | This is the second Ebola sufferer to be treated at the NIH Clinical Center. A nurse who became infected while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with the disease in the US, at a Texas hospital. Duncan later died at the hospital. The nurse recovered and was released free of the disease. |
The hospital has also monitored those returning from west Africa who experienced high-risk exposures to the Ebola virus while aiding the Ebola response effort there. All were ultimately found not to be infected. | The hospital has also monitored those returning from west Africa who experienced high-risk exposures to the Ebola virus while aiding the Ebola response effort there. All were ultimately found not to be infected. |
The World Health Organization estimates that the virus has killed more than 10,000 people across west Africa, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. | The World Health Organization estimates that the virus has killed more than 10,000 people across west Africa, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. |
The outbreak has raged for more than a year in west Africa, although the overall number of new Ebola cases has slowed dramatically in recent months. | The outbreak has raged for more than a year in west Africa, although the overall number of new Ebola cases has slowed dramatically in recent months. |
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