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New Ebola Patient in Nebraska in Critical Condition
Sun, 2014-11-16 22:38 — mike kraftMartin Salia Treated After Being Transported From Sierra Leone
WALL STREET JOURNAL Nov. 16, 2014 ByBetsy McKay and Scott Calvert
A surgeon under treatment for Ebola in Omaha, Neb., is in extremely critical condition, the hospital said early Sunday.
Martin Salia was admitted on Saturday to the Nebraska Medical Center’s biocontainment unit after a medical evacuation from Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Dr. Martin Salia poses for a photo in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in April. Associated Press
“This is an hour-by-hour situation,” said Philip Smith, medical director of the biocontainment unit and a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the hospital’s academic partner. “He is extremely ill. We have multiple highly-trained specialists who are experts in their fields targeting his most serious medical issues.”
...Dr. Salia is a surgeon at Connaught Hospital and Kissy United Methodist Hospital, both in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. A Sierra Leone national and permanent resident of the U.S., he travels between Sierra Leone and Maryland, where his family lives, according to his wife, Isatu Salia.
It isn’t clear how he contracted the disease. He developed symptoms around Nov. 6 and tested positive on Nov. 10.
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