Third Ebola Patient Released From Emory University Hospital

Third Ebola Patient Released From Emory University Hospital
ATLANTA, GA - AUGUST 01: Emory University Hospital is seen on August 1, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. Officials with the hospital confirmed that Emory University Hospital will be receiving and treating two American patients diagnosed with Ebola virus. The Ebola infected patients will be transported to Emory University Hospital from Liberia in the next couple of days and receive supportive care in a isolation unit separate from the general hospital. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)
ATLANTA, GA - AUGUST 01: Emory University Hospital is seen on August 1, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. Officials with the hospital confirmed that Emory University Hospital will be receiving and treating two American patients diagnosed with Ebola virus. The Ebola infected patients will be transported to Emory University Hospital from Liberia in the next couple of days and receive supportive care in a isolation unit separate from the general hospital. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

Oct 20 (Reuters) - An American treated for Ebola at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta since Sept. 9 has been released after being found free of the virus, the hospital said on Monday.

The man, who has not been identified, was discharged from the hospital on Sunday and went to an undisclosed location, the hospital said in a statement.

He was working in Sierra Leone when he tested positive for the disease and was evacuated to the United States on a private chartered flight.

Two other Americans who contracted Ebola in Liberia were treated in Emory's isolation unit and released in August. (Reporting by Colleen Jenkins in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Editing by Peter Cooney)

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