The third American aid worker evacuated to the United States from West Africa to be treated for Ebola, Richard Sacra, has been discharged from the hospital. Sacra was treated at Nebraska Medical Center after contracting the deadly virus in Liberia while he worked to deliver babies. He was not treating Ebola patients.
 
"I am so grateful," Sacra said in a statement. "Just so incredibly grateful to have gotten through this illness. Many were praying for me, even people I did not know personally. During the time I was here, there was a growing confidence that God was answering those prayers, and that I was steadily improving."

Two other Americans have been discharged after they were successfully treated for Ebola in the United States, including another medical doctor, Kent Brantly, who later donated a unit of blood, or convalescent serum, to Sacra.

Brantly's blood contains anti-bodies to the virus that might have helped Sacra's immune system fight Ebola.

Sacra was also treated with an experimental medication, TKM-Ebola, which stops the Ebola virus from replicating.