Health officials have said that an American healthcare worker, who contracted the deadly Ebola virus while working in West Africa, has arrived at a Maryland hospital.
Reuters reported that the patient was transported in isolation and admitted on Friday morning to the National Institutes of Health’s containment unit.
"The patient’s condition is still being evaluated," NIH said.
The Wall Street Journal noted that it has been months since anyone in the U.S. has had medical treatment for the disease. The healthcare worker will be the 11th person treated in the states. Two people treated at U.S. facilities have died from the virus.
The most recent was a surgeon, Martin Salia. The doctor was in the advanced stages of Ebola when he was brought to the U.S. and succumbed to the illness a few days later. The other was Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian citizen who was the first known person in the U.S. to have the disease after he visited his family. He died while at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
The outbreak of the often-fatal virus began early last year in West Africa and has ravaged the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, killing more than 10,000 people in the region.