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An undisclosed number of people who?ve been exposed to the Ebola virus ? not just the four patients publicly identified with diagnosed cases ? have been evacuated to the U.S. by an air ambulance company contracted by the State Department.
?We moved a lot of other people who had an exposure event,? said Dent Thompson, vice president of Phoenix Air Group. ?Many times these people are just fine, they just had an exposure. But you have to treat it as though the disease is present.?
How many exposed patients have been flown from West Africa to the U.S.? Thompson said medical privacy laws and his company?s contract with the State Department prevent him from revealing the figure.
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Phoenix Air?s modified Gulfstream III jets are ?literally intensive care units with wings,? Thompson said. He said even evacuees without a confirmed Ebola diagnosis are placed in an isolation chamber for the 12- to 14-hour flight from West Africa to the U.S.
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Thompson declined to say where patients who have just been exposed to Ebola have been flown to in the U.S.
?They all go to a hospital and they monitor them,? he said. ?If they do develop it, then they treat them. And, fingers crossed, they?re going to walk out the way Brantly and Nancy Writebol walked out.?
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http://news.yahoo.com/us-ebola-evac...s--air-ambulance-operator-says-160126831.html
?We moved a lot of other people who had an exposure event,? said Dent Thompson, vice president of Phoenix Air Group. ?Many times these people are just fine, they just had an exposure. But you have to treat it as though the disease is present.?
How many exposed patients have been flown from West Africa to the U.S.? Thompson said medical privacy laws and his company?s contract with the State Department prevent him from revealing the figure.
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Phoenix Air?s modified Gulfstream III jets are ?literally intensive care units with wings,? Thompson said. He said even evacuees without a confirmed Ebola diagnosis are placed in an isolation chamber for the 12- to 14-hour flight from West Africa to the U.S.
...
Thompson declined to say where patients who have just been exposed to Ebola have been flown to in the U.S.
?They all go to a hospital and they monitor them,? he said. ?If they do develop it, then they treat them. And, fingers crossed, they?re going to walk out the way Brantly and Nancy Writebol walked out.?
Follow Jason Sickles on Twitter (@jasonsickles).
http://news.yahoo.com/us-ebola-evac...s--air-ambulance-operator-says-160126831.html