Gloved hands
The plane carrying Dr Brantly was outfitted with a special
portable tent designed for transporting patients with highly infectious
diseases.
After it touched down at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, the
patient was collected by an ambulance which drove him to Emory, 15 miles
(24km) away.
At the hospital a person in protective clothing could be seen
climbing down from the back of the ambulance and a second person in
protective clothing appeared to take his gloved hands and guide him
toward a building, the Associated Press report.
US officials say they are confident the patients can be treated without putting the public in any danger.
The specialised unit was opened 12 years ago to care for
federal health workers exposed to some of the world's most dangerous
germs.
While it has an isolation unit, health experts say it is not
needed for treating a patient with Ebola, as the virus does not spread
through the air.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is unaware of any Ebola patient ever being treated in the US before.
Kent Brantly (right) insisted the only serum available go to a colleague
Dr Brantly's employer, the aid group Samaritan's Purse, said in
a statement that it was evacuating 60 non-essential staff who were
healthy back to the US.
An earlier statement said that Dr Brantly had been offered
experimental serum - using blood from a child whose life he saved - but
he had insisted that Ms Writebol should receive it instead.
Amber Brantly, his wife, said in a statement she remained
"hopeful and believing that Kent" would be "healed from this dreadful
disease".
"There is a little bit of worry," Jenny Kendrix, 46, told
Reuters news agency when asked about having the Ebola virus patient
brought to the same hospital where her husband was being treated for
cancer. "There is worry about it getting out."
But Ernie Surunis, 52, at the hospital for a pharmacy conference, said he was not bothered at all.
"This is a good hospital," he said. "I'm glad [the patients]
are coming. We can't leave them [in Africa] to die. They went over to
help other people."
The National Institutes of Health in the US has said it will begin testing a possible Ebola vaccine in September.
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