A surgeon who was infected with Ebola virus while working at Sierra Leone is still at the Nebraska hospital and doctors handling his case pressed, that he is in extremely critical condition.

The announcement was released on Sunday by the officials at the Nebraska Medical Center stating that Dr. Martin Salia has been under maximum supportive care possible in an effort to save his life.While the head of the biocontainment unit described  that the treatments Salia is undergoing is on an hour-by-hour situation.

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Dr. Phil Smith, one of the doctors handling the case said that the surgeon is very ill but they have multiple highly-trained specialists who are experts in their field, who are targeting Salia's most serious medical issues.

He added that Ebola produces symptoms that creates a life-threatening situation for the patient. But he is surrounded by compassionate and caring doctors who are doing everything they can to help him in his fight against the dreaded disease.

A plane carrying Salia from West Africa landed at Eppley Airfield in Omaha on Saturday afternoon and immediately transported to the hospital by an ambulance. The hospital said, the 44-year-old surgeon was much more ill than the first Ebola patients successfully treated in the United States.

Salia has been working as a general surgeon at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone but it is not clear if he worked with Ebola patients since Kissy is not an Ebola treatment unit. However, it was found out that Salia worked in at least three other facilities.

He has showed symptoms of Ebola on November 6 but test results showed that he was negative of the virus and only tested positive on Monday.

Ebola has killed over 5, 000 people in the latest statistics released and most of these people come from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. There have been ten people treated in the United States and nine of them have been successfully cured leaving only one dead. 

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