Liberian Woman Ebola (Photo : Reuters)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the US said on Saturday that there are at least 10 US citizens will be flown from Sierra Leone who was possibly exposed to the deadly Ebola virus.
They will be on board in a non-commercial air transport and upon arrival at the US will be directly brought to a confinement house in Omaha near the University of Nebraska Medical Center or in Maryland's National Institutes of Health or at Atlanta's Emory Hospital.
This 10 individuals will be flown back to the US were shown to have no Ebola Virus symptoms, said by CDC as reported by The Huffington Post.
NIH issued a statement that one US healthcare worker that arrived last Friday was in serious condition at the National Institute of Health who was tested to be positive for Ebola in Sierra Leone.
There were more than 10,000 people died of Ebola in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia and a very few cases were monitored in the US, Spain and Great Britain.
Thomas Skinner, a CDC spokesperson said that the 10 persons shall be subjected to the strict monitoring and movement guidelines of the CDC that will last for 21 days. It was not clear if they were exposed from an unidentified Ebola patient or they had exposure to the virus similar as that of the patient arrived on Friday. CDC continues its investigation and added that there might be a lot more US citizen exposed to Ebola in Africa.
If anyone manifest Ebola symptoms, such individual will be brought to treatment center for Ebola to be evaluated and to undergo medical care, told by Reuters.
The CDC sent a team of investigators to Sierra Leone to determine how the health care worker was exposed to the virus and to know who other person that came in contact with him are.
