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Healthcare Worker Exposed to the Ebola Virus is Hospitalized at Nebraska Medicine, Omaha

An American healthcare worker exposed to the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone arrived in Omaha Sunday afternoon and is now being monitored at Nebraska Medicine. Paramedics wearing full-body protective gear took the patient, who has not been identified, by ambulance from a plane that arrived at Eppley Airfield around 1:45 p.m. to the hospital, which has a specialized biocontainment unit, the WOWT NBC Omaha reports. “I can’t...

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