Three more American aid workers who were exposed to Ebola in
Sierra Leone are due to arrive back in the United States on Monday for
monitoring. None of them are sick or known to be infected with the disease.
Here is a continuation of the story according to CNN,
"Eight of their colleagues have already been flown back to
the United States where health authorities are watching them closely for signs
of the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The returning workers are clinicians for Partners in Health,
a Boston-based aid group. They are showing no symptoms of Ebola, but all had
contact with a colleague who's been diagnosed with the disease and is being
treated at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
While in West Africa, the workers "came to the aid of
their ailing colleague," according to a Partners in Health statement.
As the CDC investigates who else might have had contact with
the Ebola patient, more workers might be flown back to the United States,
according to Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the CDC.
The workers are being housed near hospitals that specialize
in treating Ebola patients, and if they show signs of the disease, they'll be
admitted as patients."
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