American Health Worker With Ebola to Be Admitted Into U.S. for Treatment

The National Institutes for Health will treat an American volunteer working in Sierra Leone who has become ill with Ebola, the agency announced Thursday afternoon.

The NIH said the patient is expected to be admitted tomorrow to its Clinical Center's Special Clinical Studies Unit in Bethesda, Maryland.

The National Institutes for Health Clinical Center. (Image source: NIH)

This will be the second person the NIH has treated for the deadly virus. The previous patient made a full recovery after treatment at the center.

The unidentified individual will be transported back to the U.S. in a private aircraft. He or she will be the only known person with Ebola in the U.S. upon entrance into the country.

The deadly virus has been the cause of several thousand deaths in Western Africa. One person died in the U.S. from the virus last year.

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