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OMAHA — The third American aid worker who contracted Ebola in Africa was released Thursday from a Nebraska hospital.
Dr. Rick Sacra said at a news conference that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had cleared him of the Ebola virus. He left the isolation unit at the Nebraska Medical Center.
“I feel great, except that I am extremely weak,” Sacra said.
The 51-year-old doctor from Worcester, Mass., said he will likely return to Africa someday to help but that he expects a long recovery ahead, based on what his friend and fellow Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly told him.
Sacra contracted Ebola while working at a hospital in Liberia with the North Carolina-based charity SIM.
