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A SECOND US worker at a Liberian hospital has been infected with the deadly ebola virus, an aid group said today.
Hygienist Nancy Writebol tested positive at the same medical compound where US doctor Kent Brantly became infected, said Ken Isaacs, vice-president of the programme run by Christian relief group Samaritan’s Purse.
Both Ms Writebol and Dr Brantly, who is medical director at the centre on the outskirts of the capital Monrovia, had been isolated and were under intensive treatment, Mr Isaacs said.
Dr Brantly was stable but in a very serious condition and Ms Writebol was stable and in a serious condition, he said.
The highly contagious ebola virus is one of the most deadly diseases in the world. The World Health Organisation said that this outbreak was the most serious ever recorded and has killed more than 670 people in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone since it began.
