article_snippet: (CNN)The National Institutes of Health said Thursday that Health plans to admit to Health Maryland hospital an American health care worker with Ebola.
article_snippet: The person was volunteering at an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone, and will be flown back to the United States on a chartered aircraft and admitted Friday, NIH NIH said.
article_snippet: The patient will be the second with Ebola admitted to its Maryland hospital.
article_snippet: Nina Pham, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, was admitted to NIH in October after she contracted Ebola while treating Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan.
article_snippet: Pham recovered and was released free of Ebola.
article_snippet: Nurse who contracted Ebola sues hospital company .
article_snippet: NIH is one of only four hospitals in the United States that have biocontainment units and has been practicing for years to treat a highly infectious disease such as Ebola.
article_snippet: More than 10,000 people have died in Ebola, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization, mostly in the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
article_snippet: Ebola is spread by direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person.
highlights_snippet: American being flown from Africa to Maryland hospital; to arrive Friday .
  
highlights_snippet: NIH has one of only four U.S. hospital biocontainment units .