'Things That Had Never Been Tried': American Clinicians on Treating Ebola in 2014

Aneesh Mehta, MD, was the physician on call when the first Ebola patient arrived at Emory University Hospital on Aug. 2, 2014.

"None of us, at that time, had taken care of patients with Ebola," Mehta, who is now chief of infectious diseases at Emory, told MedPage Today.

Back then, there were only three biocontainment units in the country: Emory's, one at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, and the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

MedPage Today spoke with healthcare professionals who helped care for Ebola patients in the U.S. during that outbreak in 2014. They described the nerves of doing so, but also the reassurance that their training and preparation would keep them safe.

"We felt, as a team, that our preparedness was there, our knowledge was there," Mehta told MedPage Today.