US hospital: Health care worker hasn't developed Ebola

Officials at a hospital say an American health care worker who was exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone has not developed the virus.

The patient arrived in Omaha on Jan. 4 for treatment in the biocontainment unit at Nebraska Medical Center. The hospital said in a news release Monday that the patient will remain in the unit throughout the 's 21-day incubation period, which began before he or she arrived at the hospital. A discharge date was not released.

The says the patient doesn't want to be publicly identified but authorized the condition update.

Nebraska Medical Center treated three people with Ebola last autumn. One died and two recovered. One of the survivors, Dr. Rick Sacra, said Monday that he's returning to Liberia, where he was infected.

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