On the same day the World Health Organization announces the 10,000th death from Ebola….

ebola 13(Via The Hill) An American healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola is being flown to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for treatment, the agency announced Thursday.

The healthcare worker will be flown in isolation from Sierra Leone through a chartered plane, NIH said. The patient will be treated in the agency’s high-level containment clinic, which has previously treated Ebola patients.   The individual is the second Ebola patient to be treated at the NIH. The previous patient fully recovered from the disease. (read more)

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In a rather semi-related matter the NBC Doctor Nancy Snyderman who refused to comply with the Ebola quarantine guidelines has resigned from NBC.

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