ATLANTA (Reuters) - The second American aid worker who contracted the Ebola virus in West Africa was expected to arrive in Atlanta on Tuesday in serious condition, while a New York hospital on Monday was reportedly testing a man with symptoms of the deadly disease.
Missionary Nancy Writebol, 59, who had been in Africa to help fight the disease, will fly on a medical aircraft from Liberia to be treated by infectious disease specialists in a special isolation ward at Emory University Hospital, according to Christian mission group SIM USA.
In New York, Mount Sinai Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side was testing a man who traveled to a West African nation where Ebola has been reported, local media reported. The man, who had a high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms, had been placed in strict isolation and was being screened to determine the cause of his symptoms, according to reports.
Emory's specialists on Saturday began treating 33-year-old U.S. doctor Kent Brantly, who also returned home after being stricken with Ebola during the emergency response to the worst outbreak on record of the hemorrhagic virus, which has killed nearly 900 people since February.
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