article_snippet: (CNN)An American health care worker who came down with Ebola while volunteering in Africa arrived Friday at a National Institutes of Health hospital in Maryland for treatment, NIH NIH said.
article_snippet: A chartered aircraft flew the patient to the United States from Sierra Leone, where the person tested positive for the deadly hemorrhagic fever while volunteering at an Ebola treatment center, NIH NIH said.
article_snippet: the patient to the United States from Sierra Leone, where the person tested positive for the deadly hemorrhagic fever while volunteering at an Ebola treatment center was in serious condition Friday, NIH NIH said.
article_snippet: Details about the patient to the United States from Sierra Leone, where the person tested positive for the deadly hemorrhagic fever while volunteering at an Ebola treatment center's identity weren't released.
article_snippet: the patient to the United States from Sierra Leone, where the person tested positive for the deadly hemorrhagic fever while volunteering at an Ebola treatment center is the second with Ebola admitted to a National Institutes of Health hospital in Maryland.
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: Ebola is spread by direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person.
highlights_snippet: American was flown from Africa to Maryland hospital .
  