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An American providing medical assistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus is being monitored in Omaha, a Nebraska Medical Center spokesman said Saturday.

The person has no Ebola symptoms but will be monitored closely, Taylor Wilson reaffirmed Sunday.

“Should any symptoms develop, the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit would be activated and the person admitted,” he said.

The person arrived in Omaha on Saturday afternoon, Wilson said.

The person may have been exposed to the virus but isn’t ill or contagious, said Dr. Ted Cieslak, an infectious diseases specialist at Nebraska Medicine and associate professor of epidemiology in the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s College of Public Health. If any symptoms develop, he said, the team at the hospital and UNMC “is among the most qualified in the world to deal with them.”

The website Politico described the person as a U.S. physician, but Wilson said that the person has asked for privacy and that he couldn’t say whether the person is a doctor or provide the person’s gender.