Second Ebola Patient Will Arrive Tuesday

Two American aid workers who were infected with the Ebola virus while assisting communities in west Africa will be reunited in a special treatment ward at Emory University Hospital, WSB-TV reports.

The two patients, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, were working as members of the faith-based service organization Samaritan’s Purse when they were stricken with the disease, which has claimed at least 800 lives during an outbreak which began in February.

Brantly has been at Emory University Hospital since Saturday. He is being treated in a state of the art isolation ward that is physically separated from other parts of the hospital. Only a handful of medical personnel will ever interact with Brantly or Writebol during their recovery.

Writebol will enter the facility on Tuesday, after landing at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Cobb County.

In Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, 1,449 people have been infected and 827 have died since the outbreak began in February, 2014. This is the most severe outbreak of Ebola in history.