The first of two American aid workers, who contracted the deadly virus in Liberia, landed in the US yesterday.
The arrival of the first case has triggered anxiety in some quarters, with television personality Donald Trump arguing that the patients should be barred from returning to American soil.
But Emory University Hospital's doctor Jay Varkery has dismissed fears Ebola could spread from the patient to across the country.
He says bringing the stricken aid workers to the US will not put the public at risk.
"I would really dispute the notion that this is bringing Ebola into the country. This is a patient, he's a sick patient that needs our help, it is one of our neighbors.
"It is somebody's parent, it is somebody's sibling, he needs our help and we're going to try to help him."
The infected American doctor returned home on a private jet before being whisked to a state-of-the-art hospital isolation unit.
Dramatic television images showed a Gulfstream jet transporting stricken doctor Kent Brantly in a collapsible isolation chamber from Africa arriving at Dobbins Air Reserve Base outside Atlanta just before 11.50am on Saturday (0150 AEST Sunday).
Footage of the arrival filmed from long-distance showed the jet pulling up at an aircraft hangar where it was met by an ambulance and several vehicles.
Local television networks then followed the convoy live as it wound its way across Atlanta to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
Brantly and Christian missionary worker Nancy Writebol are in serious but stable condition after becoming infected as they helped to battle an Ebola outbreak which has left more than 700 people dead in west Africa since March.
Writebol is expected to be airlifted back to the US in the coming days by the same method as Brantly.
A Gulfstream private jet fitted with a mobile isolation unit, designed to transfer employees from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) exposed to contagious diseases, is being used to transport the evacuees.
Brantly and Writebol will be treated at Emory's cutting-edge isolation unit, which has previously been used to treat individual infected during the SARS epidemic which erupted in Asia in 2003.
It is one of only four such facilities in the US and is located near the CDC headquarters in Atlanta.
Brantly's arrival marks the first time a patient infected with Ebola has been treated anywhere in the US.
The latest outbreak of Ebola in west Africa has killed 729 people of the more than 1300 infected since March.
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