article_snippet: An American healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in Africa has arrived safely at the National Institutes of Health research hospital in Maryland, the agency announced Friday.
article_snippet: Treatment: An American who contracted Ebolawas expected to arrive Friday at the NIH after being transported to the United States in isolation on a chartered plane (file photo)
article_snippet: The patient is the 10th person with Ebola to be treated in the U.S. and the second admitted to the NIH Clinical Center, which has one of the few containment facilities nationwide set up to treat Ebola patients.
article_snippet: The patient had been volunteering at an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone, but the NIH did not release any further details about The patient.
article_snippet: Previously, an American nurse was treated there after she contracted Ebola while caring for a Liberian man, Thomas Duncan, who died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
article_snippet: The nurse, Nina Pham, survived and is Ebola-free. '
article_snippet: the NIH Clinical Center also admitted two individuals who experienced high-risk exposures to the Ebola virus while working on the Ebola response in West Africa, but who were ultimately found not to be infected,' the NIH Clinical Center said in the NIH Clinical Center statement.
article_snippet: American nurse Nina Pham was treated at the Bethesda hospital after American nurse Nina Pham contracted Ebola while caring for a Liberian man who died at a Dallas hospital.
article_snippet: American nurse Nina Pham survived and is Ebola-free (October 2014 file photo)
article_snippet: the NIH Clinical Center's Special Clinical Studies Unit is staffed by specialists in infectious disease and critical care and is designed to prevent the spread of highly contagious viruses, including Ebola.
highlights_snippet: Nurse Nina Pham was previously treated for Ebola at NIH research hospital in Bethesda .
  , survived and is now free of Ebola .