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A Patient With Ebola Is On US Soil For The First Time In History

Lauren F FriedmanAug 2, 2014, 23:16 IST

Misha Hussain/ReutersA scientist separates blood cells from plasma cells to isolate any Ebola RNA in order to test for the virus at the European Mobile Laboratory in Gueckedou

Early on Saturday, Dr. Kent Brantley, an American doctor who got Ebola while treating patients in Liberia, was evacuated by air ambulance en route back to the U.S. Now Emory University has confirmed that he safely arrived at their hospital in Atlanta at 12:30pm Eastern Time.

This is the first time a patient with Ebola has been on U.S. soil.

The second American healthcare worker with Ebola will be transferred to Emory sometime this week, as only one patient can be carried at a time in the highly specialized air ambulance.

The current Ebola outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, has infected 1,322 and killed 728, with one additional death in Nigeria.

Here is the full statement from Emory: