A U.S. missionary who cont
racted Ebola has been evacuated from Liberia aboard a special medical flight. Nancy Writebol was flown out of Monrovia Tuesday and is expected to arrive in the United States later Tuesday. She will be treated at Emory University Hospital in the southeastern U.S. city
of Atlanta alongside an American doctor who also contracted the deadly virus while treating patients in Liberia.
The Christian charity Samaritan’s Purse said Kent Brantly received a dose of an experimental serum before leaving Liberia, and also received blood from a 14-year-old boy who had survived Ebola under his care.
Meanwhile, a New York City hospital reported it is testing a man with possible symptoms of the Ebola virus. Officials at Mount Sinai Medical Center said a man suffering from a high fever and gastrointestinal problems arrived at the emergency room early Monday and was quickly isolated. They say the patient recently traveled to a West African country where Ebola has been reported, and is now undergoing tests to determine the cause of his illness. No other details about the man were given.
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