Two U.S. Citizens Get Ebola as Liberia Crossings Close
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Two U.S. citizens are being treated for Ebola in Liberia and the country shut some border crossings, as the worst outbreak of the disease on record spread to Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and largest economy.
Kent Brantly, the medical director of the Samaritan’s Purse Ebola center in the Liberian capital Monrovia, is in isolation and receiving treatment, the Boone, North Carolina-based charity said in a statement on its website yesterday. Nancy Writebol, who was helping the team treating patients at the center, has also tested positive for Ebola, the group said.