A U.S. medical worker exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone will arrive in Nebraska Sunday for observation and possibly treatment.
According to The Washington Post, the Nebraska Medical Center will admit the healthcare worker around 2 p.m. CST.
The medical staff of the Biocontainment Unit at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Neb., will observe the unnamed patient for the 21-day monitoring period.
CTV News reported that the patient had a "high-risk exposure" to the deadly Ebola virus, but does not exhibit any symptoms.
The Nebraska Medical Center said in a statement that the patient is not contagious and is not sick, but the medical director of the Biocontainment Unit, Dr. Phil Smith, said it will take every precaution at this point.
The Nebraska Medical Center has treated other Ebola patients in the same room it is treating the latest patient, The Washington Post said.
Dr. Richard Sacra received treatment in September, NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo received treatment in October and Dr. Martin Salia began treatment but died two days after being admitted in November.
CTV News said the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 8,000 people. The World Health Organization said there are around 20,000 cases in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
The first case of Ebola in the U.S. was Eric Duncan, a Liberian who died in Dallas in October. Two nurses attending to Duncan became exposed to the virus, but have since recovered, according to The Washington Post.
