`` This patient has been exposed to the virus but is not ill and is not contagious , '' said Dr. Phil Smith , medical director of the biocontainment unit at the Omaha medical center . The health care provider was in Sierra Leone , one of the sources of Ebola . The patient is not currently ill nor contagious , but had ` ` high - risk exposure '' to malaria .
The health care provider was in Sierra Leone , one of the sources of Ebola . The patient is not currently ill nor contagious , but had ` ` high - risk exposure '' to malaria .