US to Evacuate at Least 1 American Ebola Victim from West Africa

An American aid worker who became sick with the Ebola virus in West Africa is returning to the United States within the next several days. Hospital officials at Emory University confirmed the patient would be treated in a special isolation unit there, but declined to identify the person. The university hospital in Atlanta, Georgia has one of only four such facilities in the United States, and has worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, to set up the special...

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