CDC Flies Back Employee Exposed To Ebola Virus; WHO says $430 Million Needed to Curb the Outbreak

An employee of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was flown out of West Africa Wednesday in a chartered flight after he came in contact with an aid worker who tested positive for Ebola infection.

The employee worked alongside the infected person but has not shown any symptoms of the disease as yet.  The CDC said in a statement that "therefore he poses no Ebola-related risk to friends, family, co-workers or the public." His exposure was "low-risk" and he was flown back to the U.S. in accordance with the health agency's regulations, reports USA Today.

The Ebola virus takes anywhere between a few days to three weeks to show symptoms. The agency has clarified that the worker is not being isolated and will be allowed to return to work but will be monitored for 21 for any signs of the symptoms.

Early symptoms of Ebola can include fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, sore throat and weakness, followed by diarrhea, vomiting and stomach pain.

Ebola has infected 2,615 people and killed 1,427, as of August 22 in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization.

The CDC director Thomas Frieden had earlier said that the agency was sending 60 employees to West Africa to help contain the outbreak. All returning employees are monitored and asked to check their temperatures twice a day.

On Tuesday, the World health Organisation shut down a testing facility in Sierra Leone in Kailahun, after an epidemiologist from Senegal  tested positive for the disease.

The WHO released a document recently, which said that more than $430 million will be needed to contain the outbreak of Ebola, reports Bloomberg.

The document lays out plans to curb new cases in two months and stopping all transmission in six to nine months. The fund contribution can come from governments, development banks, the private sector and in-kind contributions, according to the document.