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Sunday 16 Nov 2014 - 10:36 Makkah mean time-23-1-1436 Nebraska (IINA) – A surgeon from Sierra Leone, who is critically ill with Ebola, has been taken to the United States for treatment, BBC reported.
Dr. Martin Salia, 44, who has US residency permit and married to an American, arrived in Omaha on Saturday afternoon and was transferred to an isolation unit at the Nebraska Medical Center.
The doctor, who tested positive for the virus on Monday, had been working as a general surgeon at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown. It is not clear whether he was involved in the care of Ebola patients.
"Information coming from the team caring for him in Sierra Leone indicates he is critically ill – possibly sicker than the first patients successfully treated in the United States," the Nebraska hospital said in a statement.
Dr. Salia is the 10th person to be treated for Ebola in the US. All but one – a Liberian man named Thomas Eric Duncan – have recovered.
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