An American physician exposed to Ebola while working in the Congo was placed Saturday in a secure area at the University of Nebraska, officials said.

The physician, whose name is being withheld, isn’t showing symptoms of the virus, officials at the medical center in Omaha, Nebraska said. The individual was transported by private plane and car, they said.

He or she will be kept in the secure area for up to two weeks and be taken to a specialized bio-containment unit if symptoms show up.

“This person may have been exposed to the virus but is not ill and is not contagious,” Ted Cieslak, an infectious diseases specialist at the center, said. “Should any symptoms develop, the
Nebraska Medicine/UNMC team is among the most qualified in the world to deal with them.”

The Congolese government is grappling with the second largest Ebola outbreak on record. More than 350 people have died.

U.S. officials arranged the physician’s travel, a spokesman for the medical center said.

The largest outbreak began in 2014 and killed more than 11,000 people when the virus ravaged West Africa.

A Harlem doctor set off a panic in New York City when he returned from Guinea in 2014 infected with the virus and it was discovered he had ridden the subway and went bowling in Williamsburg. He was eventually hospitalized and released weeks later with a clean bill of health.

Ebola can incubate for three weeks before symptoms emerge.