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   Ebola is incurable and can spread like a forest fire.   
      
   Barack Insane Obama is introducing a negro disease from Africa   
   to the USA.   
      
   (Reuters) - A U.S. aid worker who was infected with the deadly   
   Ebola virus while working in West Africa will be flown to the   
   United States to be treated in a high-security ward at Emory   
   University Hospital in Atlanta, hospital officials said on   
   Thursday.   
      
   The aid worker, whose name has not been released, will be moved   
   in the next several days to a special isolation unit at Emory.   
   The unit was set up in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for   
   Disease Control and Prevention.   
      
   CDC spokeswoman Barbara Reynolds said her agency was working   
   with the U.S. State Department to facilitate the transfer.   
      
   Reynolds said the CDC was not aware of any Ebola patient ever   
   being treated in the United States, but five people in the past   
   decade have entered the country with either Lassa Fever or   
   Marburg Fever, hemorrhagic fevers similar to Ebola.   
      
   News of the transfer follows reports of the declining health of   
   two infected U.S. aid workers, Dr. Kent Brantly and missionary   
   Nancy Writebol, who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia on   
   behalf of North Carolina-based Christian relief groups   
   Samaritan's Purse and SIM.   
      
   CNN and ABC News reported that a second American infected with   
   Ebola was to be flown to the United States. CNN identified the   
   U.S.-bound patients as Brantly and Writebol. Reuters could not   
   independently confirm the reports.   
      
   Amber Brantly, the wife of Dr. Brantly, said in a statement: "I   
   remain hopeful and believing that Kent will be healed from this   
   dreadful disease."   
      
   Earlier on Thursday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the   
   State Department was working with the CDC on medical evacuations   
   of infected American humanitarian aid workers.   
      
   The outbreak in West Africa is the worst in history, having   
   killed more than 700 people since February. On Thursday, the CDC   
   issued a travel advisory urging people to avoid all non-   
   essential travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the   
   epicenter of the outbreak.   
      
   Brantly and Writebol "were in stable but grave" condition as of   
   early Thursday morning, the relief organizations said. A   
   spokeswoman for the groups could not confirm whether the patient   
   being transferred to Emory was one of their aid workers.   
      
   CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a conference call that   
   transferring gravely ill patients has the potential to do more   
   harm than good.   
      
   Meanwhile, the National Institutes of Health plans in mid-   
   September to begin testing an experimental Ebola vaccine on   
   people after seeing encouraging results in pre-clinical trials   
   on monkeys, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH's allergy and   
   infectious diseases unit, said in an email.   
      
   In its final stages, Ebola causes external and internal   
   bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea. About 60 percent of people   
   infected in the current outbreak are dying from the illness.   
      
   Writebol, 59, received an experimental drug doctors hope will   
   improve her health, SIM said. Brantly, 33, received a unit of   
   blood from a 14-year-old boy who survived Ebola with the help of   
   Brantly's medical care, said Franklin Graham, president of   
   Samaritan's Purse.   
      
   Frieden could not comment on the specifics of either treatment   
   but said: "We have reviewed the evidence of the treatments out   
   there and don't find any treatment that has proven effectiveness   
   against Ebola."   
      
   (Additional reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles and   
   Eric M. Johnson in Seattle; Editing by Will Dunham, Sandra Maler   
   and Lisa Shumaker)   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/01/us-health-ebola-usa-   
   idUSKBN0G027M20140801   
      
           
      
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