Updated at 8:25 a.m. Friday — An American healthcare worker who has tested positive for the Ebola virus arrived Friday morning at NIH’s campus in Bethesda.
The person tested positive for the virus after volunteering in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone and was taken back to the U.S. in isolation on a chartered airplane, according to NIH.
The individual was admitted Friday at 4:44 a.m. to the NIH Clinical Center Special Clinical Studies Unit, the high-level containment facility where a Dallas nurse who had also contracted Ebola was treated. She was deemed free of the virus and discharged about a week after her arrival in Bethesda.
NIH said it will not release additional details about the healthcare worker at this time.
The NIH Clinical Center is one of the only facilities of its kind in the country. Access to the unit is strictly controlled.
NIH also admitted two individuals who experienced high-risk exposures to Ebola while working in West Africa, but those two were ultimately found not to be infected.
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