Ebola Stricken America Medics

The first of two American aid workers infected with the deadly Ebola virus while in Liberia arrives in the US and heads to an Atlanta hospital for treatment
 A chartered medical aircraft carrying Dr Kent Brantly touched down at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia shortly before noon, a base spokesman said.

Dr Brantly was transferred to an ambulance to be taken to Emory University Hospital for treatment in an isolated and specially equipped room, spokesman Lieutenant Colonel James Wilson said.

Dr Brantly works for the North Carolina-based Christian organisation Samaritan's Purse. Another member of the group, missionary Nancy Writebol, is due to be brought to the US on a later flight, as the plane is only equipped to carry one patient at a time.
r Brantly and Ms Writebol were helping respond to the worst West African Ebola outbreak on record when they contracted the disease. Since February, more than 700 people in the region have died from the infection.
 Despite concern among some in the US over bringing Ebola patients to the country, health officials have said bringing the aid workers into the country would not put the public at risk.

The facility at Emory, set up with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is one of only four in the country with the facilities to deal with such cases. It is physically separate from other patient areas, providing a high level of clinical isolation.