The report according to WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has seen six cases of the Ebola virus in recent weeks affecting five
Americans and a Liberian. All of the Americans contracted the
disease while in West Africa and were diagnosed there before returning home for
treatment. The Liberian fell ill and tested positive during a visit to Dallas.
Below are details on the six U.S. cases so
far:
NBC CAMERAMAN- On Thursday, NBC News said
one of its contractors, an American freelance television cameraman working in
Liberia, had Ebola and would be flown back to the United States for treatment.
Immediately
after beginning to feel ill, the cameraman, identified by NBC as Ashoka Mukpo,
33, quarantined himself. He later went to a Doctors Without Borders treatment
center, where he tested positive for Ebola, according to NBC.
The
entire NBC crew also will return to the United States on a private charter
plane and be quarantined for 21 days, the maximum incubation period for Ebola.
LIBERIAN IN DALLAS - Thomas Eric Duncan, a
Liberian citizen, was visiting Dallas when he began feeling ill and sought
treatment at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sept. 25.
He was initially discharged with antibiotics,
despite telling a nurse he had just come from Liberia. By Sunday, he returned
to the same hospital by ambulance after vomiting outside the apartment complex
where he was staying. He remained in serious condition.
Other concerns remain about the handling of
the quarantine at the residence where Duncan was staying with the woman he had
a child with, one of her other children, and two other relatives.
There also is a dispute over Duncan's travel
to the United States as Liberian officials threaten prosecution, saying he
failed to disclose that he had contact with someone who was eventually
diagnosed with Ebola.
EMORY PATIENT - An unnamed American who
contracted Ebola in West Africa is being treated at an isolation unit at Emory
University Hospital in Atlanta. There have been few, if any, details made
public about the patient, who returned to the United States by air ambulance on
Sept. 9.
According to CNN, the American is a male who
contracted the virus in Sierra Leone. About the same time, the World Health
Organization said one of its doctors tested positive for Ebola at a treatment
center in Sierra Leone but the two cases have not been officially linked and
WHO has not identified the physician.
THREE MISSIONARIES - In the summer, three
Americans contracted Ebola while working for Christian missionary organizations
in Liberia and were flown to the United States for treatment and later
released.
Nancy Writebol contracted the virus in July
while working for a SIM USA hospital with her husband, David, who did not
contract the disease. She was treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta
and discharged Aug. 19. The couple has not ruled out returning to West Africa
to continue their mission work.
Dr. Kent Brantly also was treated in
isolation at Emory after contracting Ebola while working for Christian relief
group Samaritan's Purse. He was released Aug. 21.
Dr.
Rick Sacra, a Boston physician who was working for SIM USA, arrived in the
United States on Sept. 5 and was treated for three weeks at Nebraska Medical
Center. He has said he may return to Liberia to fight the outbreak.
UNDER
OBSERVATION - On Friday, a Washington hospital said it had admitted a patient
with possible Ebola symptoms "in an abundance of caution." The
patient, who had recently traveled to Nigeria, was in stable condition.
Additionally,
an American doctor remains under observation at the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, outside of Washington but has not been
confirmed to have the disease. The physician was exposed while volunteering in
Sierra Leone, according to the NIH.
An
NIH spokeswoman on Friday declined to give any further updates on the case,
citing privacy reasons. The patient was admitted on Sunday. If kept for 21
days, the patient would be released around Oct. 19.
Another
patient was also isolated in Hawaii
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