--- title: American Patient With Ebola in Critical Condition description: The American health care worker with Ebola being treated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. has gone from serious to critical condition, according to the agency. canonical: https://time.com/3746372/american-patient-ebola-critical-condition/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-16T18:40:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:59:40.449Z article:section: Health og:title: American Patient With Ebola in Critical Condition og:description: The patient was working in Sierra Leone og:url: https://time.com/3746372/american-patient-ebola-critical-condition/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: American Patient With Ebola in Critical Condition twitter:description: The patient was working in Sierra Leone twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # American Patient With Ebola in Critical Condition ## Video: Does Insurance Cover Ebola? [Watch (HLS stream): Does Insurance Cover Ebola?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/5Fw6St3x.m3u8) (2:17)  _Published 2014-10-24. Your chances of getting Ebola in the U.S. are very slim. But if you do, who's footing the bill?_ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 16, 2015 6:40 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 16, 2015 6:40 PM UTC The American health care worker with Ebola who is being treated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has gone from serious to critical condition, [according to the agency](http://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2015/nih-16.htm). The patient was infected while working Sierra Leone and then was flown to the NIH in Bethesda, Md. for treatment, arriving March 13. The patient is the second to be treated for Ebola by the NIH. Dallas nurse Nina Pham was the first. She survived the disease after being infected by Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person with Ebola to be diagnosed in the U.S. The NIH has not released additional details about the latest patient. Twelve other workers from the NIH patient’s volunteer organization, Partners in Health, are coming to the U.S. for monitoring. One person being monitored in Nebraska was brought to Nebraska Medical Center on Monday after beginning to experience possible Ebola symptoms, the[ Associated Press reports](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US%5FEBOLA%5FAMERICAN%5FPATIENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT). **MORE:** [American Health Worker With Ebola Heading to U.S. for Treatment](http://time.com/3743299/american-with-ebola/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3746372/american-patient-ebola-critical-condition/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3746372/american-patient-ebola-critical-condition/"},"headline":"American Patient With Ebola in Critical Condition","datePublished":"2015-03-16T18:40:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:59:40.449Z","description":"The patient was working in Sierra Leone","url":"https://time.com/3746372/american-patient-ebola-critical-condition/","keywords":["ebola","Sierra Leone","American","NIH"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3746372/american-patient-ebola-critical-condition/","name":"American Patient With Ebola in Critical Condition"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Does Insurance Cover Ebola?","description":"Your chances of getting Ebola in the U.S. are very slim. 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