US DOCTOR WITH LASSA FEVER MOVED TO ATLANTA FROM TOGO

-          An American Dr. with a suspected case of Lassa fever, working with missionaries in Togo, has been moved to an isolation ward at Atlanta hospital.

-          According to officials, the patient, not publicly identified, was flown in a specially equipped aircraft from Togo and was expected to arrive Emory University Hospital.

-          Lassa fever is a deadly hemorrhagic disease similar to ebola.

-          Dr. Bruce Ribner, Director of Emory’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit said the isolation ward is where four ebola patients were successfully treated in 2014.

                               CULLED FROM VANGUARD