Ten American healthcare workers for the Partners In Health charity are being flown from West Africa after aiding another American clinician diagnosed with Ebola, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Four returned Saturday at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, one returned to Atlanta and none have Ebola symptoms although they will self-isolate for monitoring during a 21-day incubation period.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the decision was reached with the State Department "out of an abundance of caution." According to the Wall Street Journal, Partners In Health say it would continue to work in Sierra Leone.
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