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Omaha Doctors Ready for New Ebola Patient

UNMCOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — When an American photojournalist with the deadly Ebola virus arrives at a Nebraska hospital for treatment, doctors there will be applying the lessons they learned from their treatment last month of another Ebola patient.

Officials with the Nebraska Medical Center have declined to confirm that it is 33-year-old Ashoka Mukpo they will be treating, citing federal medical privacy laws. But Mukpo’s family confirmed Friday that he was expected to leave Liberia in West Africa on Sunday and arrive in Omaha on Monday.

Dr. Rosanna Morris says the Omaha hospital’s 40-member isolation unit medical team will have to evaluate its new Ebola patient before determining how it will treat him. But she says the team learned a lot from treating American aid worker Rick Sacra for three weeks in September.

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