Americans Infected With Ebola Evacuated To U.S

The fear began just after news broke Thursday
that a long-range business jet with an isolation
pod left the United States for Liberia,
where it
will evacuate two Americans infected with Ebola.
Twitter exploded with questions about the
deadly virus, which according to the World
Health Organization is believed to have killed
hundreds in four West African nations. And with
reaction to news that two infected Americans
would soon be on their way back to the United
States.
“Why are they doing this?” Robin Hunter asked
in a post on Twitter.
While U.S. officials have remained mum on the
issue, a source told CNN that a medical charter
flight left from Cartersville, Georgia, on Thursday
evening.
A CNN crew saw the plane depart shortly after 5
p.m. ET. The plane matched the description
provided by the source, who spoke on condition
of anonymity.
It was not immediately known when the two
Americans — identified by the source as Dr.
Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol — would arrive
in the United States, or where the plane would
land.
At least one of the two will be taken to a
hospital at Emory University, near the
headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention in Atlanta, hospital
officials told CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
The patient will be cared for in an isolation unit
at the hospital that is separate from patient
areas, Gupta said.
With the return of Brantly and Writebol to the
United States, it will be the first time that
patients diagnosed with Ebola will be known to
be in the country.
Brantly and Writebol are described as being in
stable-but-grave conditions, with both
reportedly taking a turn for the worse overnight,
according to statements released Thursday by
the faith-based charity Samaritan’s Purse