Nebraska: A US medical missionary infected with the Ebola virus entered yesterday morning the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha for treatment after being flown in from West Africa, a spokeswoman for the medical centre said.
Dr Rick Sacra, a 51-year-old Boston physician, is the third US missionary doing health work with the SIM USA Christian group in Liberia infected with the deadly virus.
Sacra’s plane landed at the Offutt Air Force Base and he was transported to the medical center in an ambulance escorted by state highway patrol, said Jenny Nowatzke, media relations coordinator with the medical centre. Sacra walked onto the airplane in Liberia on Thursday. He will be treated at the Nebraska hospital’s Biocontainment Patient Care Unit.
The virus has killed 1,900 people out of 3,500 cases in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal since March.
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