US doctor infected with Ebola arrives in Nebraska
Source: AP-Excite
By MARGERY A. BECK
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A doctor who became infected with Ebola while working in Liberia — the third American aid worker sickened with the virus — arrived Friday at a Nebraska hospital for treatment.
Officials at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha have said Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, will be treated at the hospital's 10-bed special isolation unit on the seventh floor, the largest of four such units in the U.S.
Sacra, from the Boston area, headed to Liberia after hearing that two other missionaries were sick. He served with the North Carolina-based charity SIM. Sacra delivered babies but was not involved in the treatment of Ebola patients, so it's unclear how he became infected with the virus that has killed about 1,900 people.
Local media reported shortly after 6 a.m. that a plane carrying Sacra landed at Offutt Air Force Base, south of the Omaha suburb of Bellevue. He arrived at the hospital in an ambulance about 40 minutes later, but media were unable to see Sacra as he was hustled into the facility.
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Drug that helped other Ebola sufferers won't be in Nebraska Medical Center arsenal: http://www.livewellnebraska.com/health/drug-that-helped-other-ebola-sufferers-won-t-be-in/article_f601e85e-346f-11e4-88ff-0017a43b2370.html
Debbie Sacra, wife of Dr. Rick Sacra, an American doctor who contracted the Ebola virus in Africa, smiles as she speaks about her husband's health while addressing members of the media at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Thursday Sept. 4, 2014 in Worcester, Mass. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Local coverage:
http://www.livewellnebraska.com/health/american-doctor-with-ebola-virus-to-arrive-at-nebraska-medical/article_94326f90-34e2-11e4-95df-0017a43b2370.html
Posted: Friday, September 5, 2014 5:15 am
By Jay Withrow / World-Herald staff writer
An ambulance carrying a medical missionary recently infected with Ebola while working in Liberia has arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center.
Officials plan an 11 a.m. press conference to provide more details.
A plane carrying Dr. Rick Sacra arrived at Offutt Air Force Base at 6 a.m. Friday, med center spokeswoman Jenny Nowatzke said. An ambulance escorted by multiple vehicles from the Omaha Police Department, Bellevue Police Department and Nebraska State Patrol left the base at 6:15 a.m. and arrived at the med center at 6:35 a.m., she said. At 6:53 a.m., the med center said Sacra was in its Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit, where he will be treated.
At least 14 motorcycles and seven or eight Omaha, Bellevue and Nebraska State Patrol cruisers were in the motorcade, and the patrol also had its helicopter flying overhead, a trooper said.
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called ZMapp, to treat another patient."
Damn. 
