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Ten healthcare workers return to US after exposure to Ebola

By The Wall Street Journal  
   March 16, 2015

Ten American clinicians working in Sierra Leone with the Boston-based charity Partners In Health are being flown to the U.S. from West Africa after going to the aid of an American clinician who was diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus disease, the group said. Four Americans arrived Saturday at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Another American health-care worker was flown to the Atlanta area on Friday to be near Emory University Hospital. None of the 10 clinicians has Ebola symptoms, Partners In Health said Saturday, and they have agreed to self-isolate while being monitored during the 21-day Ebola incubation period. [Subscription Required]

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