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Sierra Leone surgeon critically ill with Ebola arrives in U.S.


    OMAHA Neb. (Reuters) - A Sierra Leone surgeon who is critically ill with Ebola arrived by plane in the United States on Saturday and was taken to the Nebraska Medical Center, the hospital said.

    Dr. Martin Salia, 44, a permanent U.S. resident who caught Ebola working as a surgeon in a Freetown hospital, arrived on a Phoenix Air flight from West Africa to Omaha at 2:45 p.m. local time (20:45 GMT) on Saturday and transferred into a waiting ambulance.

    (Reporting by Katie Knapp Schubert; Editing by Victoria Cavaliere and Franklin Paul)