CDC chief: Ebola patient improving after return to USA

Sunday, August 3, 2014
By Paul Martin

Natalie DiBlasio and John Bacon
USA TODAY.com
August 3, 2014

The American physician flown back to the United States after becoming infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia “seems to be improving,” the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday.

Kent Brantly was being treated in a special isolation unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after arriving Saturday at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Georgia. It’s the first time anyone infected with the deadly virus has been brought into the country.

“We’re hoping he’ll continue to improve,” Dr. Tom Frieden told CBS’ Face the Nation. “But Ebola is such a scary disease because it’s so deadly. I can’t predict the future for individual patients.”

A second American infected with the virus, Nancy Writebol, is scheduled to arrive in the USA within a few days. Brantly and Writebol were serving in Liberia as medical missionaries when they became infected with the virus, which has killed 729 people and sickened more than 1,300 the West African nations of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

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