The ebola epidemic has not been the mainstream topic of conversation lately, however the battle is far from over. As nurses and doctors continue to go to Sierra Leone to treat the infections (contracted by West Africans), they understand that they run the risk of catching the disease also.

One of the latest healthcare working Americans has been isolated and charted on a plane. According to the Associated Press, the patient, who is the 10th American to catch Ebola arrived at National Institutes of Health’s hospital in Maryland and was admitted at 4:44 a.m. For now, the patient’s name, age and gender were not released.

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Previously, an American nurse was treated there after she contracted Ebola while caring for a patient in a Dallas hospital. The nurse, Nina Pham, survived and is Ebola-free.

The World Health Organization estimated Thursday that the virus has killed more than 10,000 people, mostly in the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The current outbreak is the largest ever for the disease. While deaths have slowed dramatically in recent months, the virus appears stubbornly entrenched in parts of Guinea and Sierra Leone.

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