There Are Now More Than a Dozen People Being Monitored for Ebola in the U.S.
Liz Klimas
TheBlaze.com
Mar. 19, 2015
NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — Health officials say two more American aid workers arrived in the United States Wednesday night to be monitored for Ebola, bringing the total brought back to the country since Friday to 17.
None of those being monitored have tested positive for the viral disease.
All are connected to an unidentified American who had been in Africa with the group Partners in Health and who returned to the U.S. last week after he came down with Ebola. He is currently in critical condition at a government hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.
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There Are Now More Than a Dozen People Being Monitored for Ebola in the U.S.
Mar. 19, 2015 7:55am Liz Klimas
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NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — Health officials say two more American aid workers arrived in the United States Wednesday night to be monitored for Ebola, bringing the total brought back to the country since Friday to 17.
None of those being monitored have tested positive for the viral disease.
All are connected to an unidentified American who had been in Africa with the group Partners in Health and who returned to the U.S. last week after he came down with Ebola. He is currently in critical condition at a government hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the aid workers being monitored were brought back on non-commercial planes and volunteered to self-isolate during a 21-day monitoring period, the incubation time for the Ebola virus.
Some aid workers are staying near hospitals with special isolation units in Bethesda, Atlanta, and Omaha, Nebraska. A CDC spokeswoman said Wednesday said the two most recent people are considered low risk and will go home for the 21-day monitoring period.
In addition to aid workers, a mother and child in Amarillo, Texas, who recently came back to the U.S. from Liberia, are being monitored after the child developed a fever.
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