The American was admitted to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, at 5:45 am (10:45 GMT), according AFP. The hospital will monitor the health worker to determine whether the patient has Ebola.
.@EmoryUniversity Hospital will monitor American healthcare worker from West Africa with possible exposure to #Ebola virus.
— Emory Healthcare (@emoryhealthcare) 4 декабря 2014
The name of the health worker has not been released "out of respect for patient privacy and in accordance with the patient’s wishes," a spokesman for Emory said, as quoted by the Washington Post. The hospital provided no additional details.
On Tuesday, US health officials designated 35 medical centers across the US, including Emory, as centers capable of treating patients infected with Ebola. Moreover, Emory was the first hospital in the country to treat Ebola patients in its Serious Communicable Diseases Unit.
According to the latest data released by the WHO on December 3, the number of confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of Ebola has exceeded 17,000, with over 6,000 casualties.
Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with the bodily fluids of those infected. Although there is no officially approved medication for the virus, several countries, including Russia, are working on trial vaccines.
