WASHINGTON (AFP) – Two US citizens
suffering from Ebola in West Africa will be
evacuated back to the United States to be
cared for in strict isolation in the coming days,
the State Department said Friday.
“The safety and security of US citizens is our
paramount concern,” deputy spokeswoman
Marie Harf said, confirming the State
Department was facilitating the medical
evacuation with the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
“Every precaution is being taken to move the
patients safely and securely, to provide critical
care en route on a non-commercial aircraft and
to maintain strict isolation upon arrival in the
United States.”
They will be “taken to medical facilities with
appropriate isolation and treatment
capabilities,” Harf added in her statement.
Samaritan’s Purse, a US charity, has said that
two of its staffmembers, doctor Kent Brantly
and another American missionary worker,
Nancy Writebol, were stricken with the virus in
Liberia.
Both “are in stable but grave condition,” the
group said Thursday in a statement.
Harf declined to identify the two patients who
would be evacuated due to privacy concerns.
Emory University Hospital, in southern Georgia,
has also said that it is preparing to receive “a
patient with Ebola virus infection to its special
facility containment unit within the next several
days.”
But it was not immediately clear if either Brantly
or Writebol would be taken to Emory.
“CDC protocols and equipment are used for
these kinds of medical evacuations so that they
are carried out safely,” Harf added.
This was done in an effort to protect “the
patient and the American public, as has been
done with similar medical evacuations in the
past,” she added.
Brantly, 33, became infected with Ebola while
working with patients in the Liberian capital of
Monrovia as he helped treat victims of the
worst Ebola outbreak in history.
The World Health Organization warned West
Africa’s Ebola-hit nations that the epidemic
was spiraling out of control and could spread to
other countries.
The WHO raised the death toll by 57 to 729 on
Thursday, announcing that 122 new cases had
been detected between Thursday and Sunday
last week, bringing the total to more than 1,300
since the epidemic began earlier this year.
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here we go again!!

Ebola news Everywhere. Hmmmm I done tire!

Hmmmmm