A surgeon infected with Ebola while working in Sierra Leone is now in Nebraska receiving treatment in a hospital equipped with a special bio-containment unit.
Media reports showed Dr. Martin Salia arriving by charter plan from Freetown, Sierra Leone. He was transported to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, one of four American hospitals that have special units for treating highly infectious diseases.
Salia is a citizen of Sierra Leone but is a permanent resident of the United States with family living in New Carrollton, Md. He is reportedly critically ill, perhaps sicker than the past several patients treated successfully for Ebola in the U.S.
The Nebraska facility also treated Dr. Rick Sacra, who caught the disease while treating patients in Liberia, and NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo. Both survived the virus.
