US health worker hospitalized in Nebraska with suspected Ebola virus

A US health worker who may have had contact with the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone will be seen in a hospital in Nebraska.

According to the director of the Department of Bioisolation at the University of Nebraska, the patient is "not sick and not contagious."

The patient will be monitored 21 day.

On Saturday, representatives of the London hospital reported that the health of a nurse from Scholand, who was infected with the Ebola virus, has deteriorated sharply in recent days, her condition is assessed as critical.

Pauline Kafferki worked as a volunteer in Sierra Leone, assisting in the fight against fever.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in the world more than 20 thousand people are infected with the Ebola virus; more than 7900 people died of fever.

Almost all infections have been reported in three countries - Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

In Nigeria, Mli, ​​Senegal, Spain, the USA and the UK, at least one person was diagnosed with the Ebola virus, writes Voice of America.