Dr. Martin Salia, who was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday, landed at Eppley Airfield in Omaha on Saturday afternoon and was taken by ambulance to the Nebraska Medical Center.
Amidst cheers and applause a slim figure of a doctor with curly short hair took the microphone at Tuesday press conference in the lobby of Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital.
One person quarantined due to contact with New York City’s first ebola patient, Craig Spencer, was released on Wednesday, the New York City health department announced.
A New York doctor who became infected with Ebola while treating patients in Guinea has been upgraded from serious but stable condition to stable condition, hospital officials said Saturday, marking progress in a case that intensified the debate over how to treat health workers returning from West Africa.