The female nurse who was exposed to the Ebola virus while she was West Africa has arrived at the National Institutes of Health last Thursday. She is now the latest person to be admitted to a hospital in the United States after being exposed to the potentially-deadly disease.
The health officials of the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md, released the latest report that the patient rendered volunteered to work in Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone.
She arrived at the NIH by 12:40 pm Eastern time and was admitted to the special clinic for closed monitoring and observation. Her name was not revealed to protect her privacy. However, she has not yet manifested any symptoms but the admission was "out of an abundance of caution," the NIH said.
The Ebola Virus Disease outbreak began eight months ago in West Africa. Based from the data from the World Health Organization, the estimated death toll reached more than 6,000 people and infected more than 17,000 people mostly in West Africa. Ten of the patients were treated in the United States but out of the 10, two of them died.
One of the nurses who were infected by Ebola, Nina Pham, a Texas nurse who contracted the disease while caring for the first case of Ebola in US, was also treated in NIH in October. Thomas Eric Duncan was the first person to be infected by Ebola in the U.S. and he died in a hospital in Dallas.
Last week, another patient was also exposed to Ebola and was admitted to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. However, the hospital has not yet identified the patient and was not keen in providing further details about the case.
The three most-ravaged countries namely Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are having continuous growth in cases. They are expecting that cases will not subside until mid-2015.