Physicians at the National Institutes of Health updated the condition of an American healthcare worker being treated for Ebola from fair to good condition.
No further information has been released on the patient, who was brought to the NIH in Bethesda, Md., on March 13 after contracting Ebola while working with patients in Sierra Leone. The volunteer was admitted to the Special Clinical Studies Unit in serious condition and was later in critical condition for almost two weeks, but has since steadily recovered .
The federal government brought back at least 16 other volunteers who worked with Boston-based Partners in Health out of concern that they may have been exposed to the virus. Nebraska Medicine in Omaha said the 21-day quarantine period for five individuals monitored there was completed last week.
It's likely that other volunteers have finished their required direct-active monitoring, though no other official statements have been made. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, where additional patients have been monitored. The NIH referred questions regarding patient monitoring in Bethesda to the CDC.
