Tag: arrive-at-emory
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U.S. doctor with Lassa fever en route to Atlanta from West Africa
By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) – An American doctor who was working with missionaries in West Africa is being moved to an isolation ward at an Atlanta hospital on Friday with a suspected case of Lassa fever, a deadly hemorrhagic disease similar to Ebola, officials said. The patient, who has not been identified publicly, was…