An American healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone is set to check in for treatment at the Maryland hospital of the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The healthcare worker will be brought in isolation to the hospital's high security containment facility on a chartered flight.

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The patient will be confined at the NIH Clinical Center's Special Clinical Studies Unit.

Just recently, the Maryland campus of the NIH also took care of Nina Pham, a nurse fromTexas, who was infected with Ebola while she was caring for a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

This is the second time the complex is receiving a patient with Ebola virus infection.

In the past, the NIH has also attended to two persons who had high exposures to the virus while working in West Africa.

The two patients, however, were later cleared of any infection.

Last week, a British healthcare worker who was infected with Ebola virus while also working in Sierra Leone, was flown back to London.

She was taken to Royal Free Hospital for treatment.

She was accompanied by her two colleagues as part of a precautionary measure, just in case she has passed on the infection to them through close contact.

About 600 to 700 British defense personnel are based in Sierra Leone as the United Kingdom takes part in the international effort to fight the largest ever Ebola outbreak.

British Minister for the Armed Forces, Mark Francois, hails the courage and dedication of all health workers who are in Sierra Leone.

About 10,000 people have died of Ebola in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Although the number of patients in these countries worst-affected by the virus has gone down, health officials say the reason may just be poor detection of cases in remote areas.

Families who have members who fall victims to the virus are reluctant to bring the patients to clinics.

Liberia last week released from hospital its last known ebola patient.

As of Tuesday, Sierra Leone still has 127 patients in various treatment facilities.

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