Ebola-infected US ‘samaritan’ lands in Atlanta

An American aid worker infected with the deadly ebola virus while in Liberia was being treated at an Atlanta hospital in a special isolation unit yesterday.

Dr Kent Brantly works for the North Carolina-based Christian organisation Samaritan’s Purse. A second infected member of the group, missionary Nancy Writebol, will be brought to the United States on a later flight as the medical aircraft is equipped to carry only one patient at a time.

A medical aircraft carrying Brantly landed at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia late on Saturday morning. Brantly then was driven by ambulance to Emory University Hospital.