Ebola Patient Released from Emory Hospital Cleared of Virus

A worker with the World Health Organization who contracted the Ebola virus while in west Africa has been successfully treated and was released from Emory University Hospital over the weekend.

The worker, who wished to remain anonymous, was admitted on Sept. 9 after contracting the virus in Sierra Leone. He was treated in a state-of-the-art medical isolation facility that had already successfully treated aid workers Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol.

WSB-TV reports that Emory officials said the man will make a statement at a later date.

Far from resting on their laurels, Emory is already hard at work treating another Ebola patient. Amber Vinson, a nurse who treated Ebola victim Thomas Duncan at a hospital in Dallas, contracted the disease from her patient and has been at Emory since Wednesday of last week.