Healthcare workers monitored for Ebola in Atlanta
11alive.com
March 16, 2015
ATLANTA — An American healthcare worker being treated in Maryland for Ebola is in critical condition as his health continues to get worse.
Three other people who tried to help him in Sierra Leone are believed to be in Atlanta, so doctors at Emory can monitor them. They are all with Partners in Health. While none of them show any Ebola symptoms, they did take private planes to get to Georgia.
The healthcare workers won’t actually be at the hospital. Instead they’ll stay somewhere nearby. Doctors will check on them twice a day, or have them call in to report their condition.
While the workers from Partners in Health are the latest high profile case, they are not the only ones living in quarantine in Georgia.
The Department of Public Health says 122 other people — many CDC workers who have returned from West Africa — have raised red flags and are actively being monitored.
Since the screening process began in October at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, more than 900 people have been monitored, 24 of them taken to the hospital for further evaluation, but none according to the state, have actually been diagnosed with Ebola.
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