The Ebola patient being treated at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda was upgraded from critical to serious condition Thursday.
NIH announced the change in the American health care worker’s condition about 10 days after downgrading the patient to critical condition.
The health care worker arrived at the Bethesda research facility March 13 after being transported from Sierra Leone, where the health care worker was volunteering in an Ebola treatment unit. Doctors at NIH originally found the patient to be in serious condition, but later downgraded the condition to critical March 16.
Details about the patient have not been released by NIH. The research facility said Thursday it does not plan to provide any additional information about the patient.
NIH is caring for the health worker in its Clinical Center’s Special Clinical Studies unit, which is specifically designed to provide high-level isolation capabilities and is staffed by infectious disease specialists.
The patient is the second one with the virus to be treated at the facility. The other, Texas nurse Nina Pham, was declared free of the virus and released about 10 days after being admitted to NIH.
