A surgeon working in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown to the US for treatment today, according to a US Federal Government source.
The surgeon, Martin Salia, is a citizen of the west African nation, but is also a permanent US resident, according to an official with knowledge of the case.
Salia, 44, will be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
The official was not authorized to release the information and spoke on condition of anonymity.
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 last, Craig Spencer, was released from a New York hospital on Tuesday.
In a statement on Thursday, the Nebraska Medical Center said it had no official confirmation that it would be treating another Ebola patient. The hospital said a patient with Ebola in Sierra Leone will be evaluated for possible transport to the hospital.
The patient would arrive this afternoon, the statement said.
According to the federal official, Salia is a general surgeon who has been working at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He came down with Ebola-like symptoms on Nov. 6, 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 center in Freetown.
The Nebraska Medical Center is one of four US hospitals with specialized treatment units for people with 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.
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