An American patient treated for Ebola virus at a National Institutes of Health has improved from critical to serious condition.

"The status of the patient with Ebola virus disease being treated at the NIH Clinical Center has improved from critical to serious condition," the NIH said.
The medical charity Partners in Health said the patient is a clinician who worked in Sierra Leone, which along with Liberia and Guinea is struggling to emerge from the worst Ebola outbreak in history.
The NIH's clinic is equipped with state-of-the-art isolation facilities and is staffed with infectious disease and critical care specialists.
The NIH is the premier US medical research center in the United States.
An American nurse, Nina Pham, was treated at the clinic after she was infected with the Ebola virus at a Texas hospital by a Liberian, Thomas Eric Duncan, who had initially been misdiagnosed.
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More than 10,000 people have died of the virus since the outbreak was identified in early 2014.
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Source-Medindia