Sunday 16 November 2014

Ebola-infected doctor from Sierra Leone flown to US

An ambulance arrives at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska on October 6, 2014, carrying an Ebola patient A doctor from Sierra Leone infected with Ebola was flown to the United States early Saturday to be treated for the deadly virus, medical officials told AFP. The flight carrying Martin Salia left the airport at Sierra Leone's capital Freetown at 2:30 am (GMT), Brima Kargbo, the country's chief medical officer, told AFP. The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha -- one of a handful of medical facilities in the United States specially designated to treat Ebola patients -- said he would arrive at around 5 pm (2200 GMT), a couple of hours later than previously announced. Salia, who has legal resident status in the United States, had been treating Ebola patients at Freetown's Connaught Hospital when he became infected.




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