An additional four healthcare workers arrived in the U.S. on Tuesday to be isolated and monitored for signs of Ebola, while a small Texas city is monitoring travelers that recently came from West Africa.
The healthcare workers were connected to a clinician currently being treated for the virus in Maryland, according to the Associated Press. They join 10 other healthcare workers that were evacuated to the U.S. last weekend and are being monitored in different parts of the country for the virus.
So far none of the 15 unidentified volunteers has contracted the virus. However, one patient being monitored in Nebraska was sent to a biocontainment unit on Monday.
The condition of the unidentified clinician with Ebola has worsened from serious to critical, according to the National Institutes of Health, which is treating the patient at the agency’s Bethesda, Md., facility.
Meanwhile, Amarillo, Texas’ public health department reported Tuesday that it is actively monitoring a small number of travelers from West Africa for Ebola. At least one person was transported to a local hospital after showing possible symptoms since returning to the U.S., with the city declining to disclose how many travelers are being monitored.
The unidentified number of individuals weren’t symptomatic when they entered the country, a press release from the city said.
Ebola has killed more than 10,000 people, mostly in the West African countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
