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Reports: 3rd Ebola patient headed to Nebraska
Thu, 2014-11-13 20:29 — mike kraftUSA TODAY Nov.13, 2014
By Michael Winter
A third Ebola patient is headed to the Nebraska Medical Center this weekend, according to news reports Thursday.
CBS News said the patient was a surgeon infected with the virus while treating victims in Sierra Leone, one of the hardest-hit areas of West Africa.
NBC News said the patient is a Sierra Leonean national who is a permanent resident of the United States...
The Biocontainment Unit at the University of Nebraska facility in Omaha has already successfully treated and released two others -- Dr. Rick Sacra, a missionary delivering babies in Liberia, and Ashoka Mukpo, an NBC News freelance cameraman who also became infected while working in Liberia.
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