Status of Ebola Positive US Volunteer Improves

The status of a US volunteer treated for Ebola has improved from critical to serious condition.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The condition of the US health care volunteer treated for Ebola has improved, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced in a statement on Thursday.

“The status of the patient with Ebola virus disease being treated at the NIH Clinical Center has improved from critical to serious condition,” the statement read. “No additional details about the patient are being shared at this time.”

News: Update on clinical status of patient with Ebola virus disease at the NIH Clinical Center http://t.co/m1w9BIAWSv

— NIH (@NIH) 26 Март 2015

Earlier in March, the patient was flown from Sierra Leone to the United States on a private charter aircraft, and was admitted to the NIH’s Clinical Center’s Special Clinical Studies (SCSU) high-level isolation unit.

The patient is the second Ebola positive individual treated at the Clinical Center located in the US state of Maryland, where the NIH said the staff are trained in “strict infection control practices.”

However, the patient is the 11th person who tested positive for Ebola treated in the United States.

According to the most recent World Health Organization (WHO) figures revealed on March 18, 25,000 people have been infected with the disease and more then 10,000 have died.

The current Ebola endemic began in Guinea in 2014, and later spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal, according to the WHO.

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