The State Department has confirmed that two US citizens suffering from Ebola in West Africa will be evacuated back to the United States to be cared for in strict isolation.
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They will be "taken to medical facilities with appropriate isolation and treatment capabilities," Harf added in her statement.
Samaritan's Purse, a US charity, has said that two of its staff members, doctor Kent Brantly and another American missionary worker, Nancy Writebol, were stricken with the virus in Liberia.
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Harf declined to identify the two patients who would be evacuated due to privacy concerns.
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But it was not immediately clear if either Brantly or Writebol would be taken to Emory.
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This was done in an effort to protect "the patient and the American public, as has been done with similar medical evacuations in the past," she added.
Brantly, 33, became infected with Ebola while working with patients in the Liberian capital of Monrovia as he helped treat victims of the worst Ebola outbreak in history.
The World Health Organization warned West Africa's Ebola-hit nations that the epidemic was spiraling out of control and could spread to other countries.
The WHO raised the death toll by 57 to 729 on Thursday, announcing that 122 new cases had been detected between Thursday and Sunday last week, bringing the total to more than 1,300 since the epidemic began earlier this year.
Source-AFP
