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Atlanta hospital receives hate mail for treating aid workers stricken by Ebola

The Atlanta hospital treating one of the US aid workers stricken with the Ebola virus, and preparing to receive a second, has appealed to the public to show compassion, after receiving nasty emails asking why the patients were allowed back into the country.

Emory University Hospital is expecting the arrival of Nancy Writebol early next week. She will be treated in a specially equipped isolation unit alongside one occupied by Dr Kent Brantly who arrived over the weekend.

Officials there are striving to reassure nervous members of the public that the aid workers presence in the city did not imply a risk of an Ebola outbreak on US soil.

I hope our understandable fear of the unfamiliar does not trump our compassion when illAmericans return to the US for care, said Dr Tom Frieden, director of the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC), also based in Atlanta. He noted the agency had received some nastyemails and about 100 calls from people questioning why the sick aid workers should be let into the US.

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Dan Mullin is an active writer and editor for the Pluto Daily who covered the 2014 Ebola Outbreak. Mullin attended the Wake Forest School of Medicine before leaving to pursue his lifelong science goal of allowing humans to live forever via a computer/brain transfer.