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September 2, 2014

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Another American doctor who works as a Missionary in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia. He is the third American health care worker to contract the virus. The first two American Doctors, Nancy and Kent, who contracted the disease have recovered from the disease and discharged.
The name of the doctor, who worked for the Christian aid group SIM, has not been released. But the group said in a statement that he did not treat Ebola patients. Instead, he saw obstetrics patients at the organization’s main ELWA hospital, which is separate from its Ebola isolation unit. How he became infected is unknown.
The doctor isolated himself at the onset of symptoms and is currently being treated at the isolation facility, according to the group. They added that he is “doing well and is in good spirits.”
“My heart was deeply saddened, but my faith was not shaken, when I learned another of our missionary doctors contracted Ebola,” said Bruce Johnson, president of SIM USA, in the statement. SIM was founded in 1893 as the Sudan Interior Mission; the group has since expanded its scope and adopted the slogan “Serving In Mission.”
SIM will hold a press conference Wednesday at its Charlotte, N.C., headquarters to provide more details.
The new case comes less than two weeks after the first American patients were discharged Ebola-free from a hospital in Atlanta. Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, who were working with Samaritan’s Purse and SIM in Monrovia, had each been given an experimental Ebola drug during their hospitalization.
A man lies in a newly opened Ebola isolation center in a closed school in Monrovia, Liberia, on Thursday. The official death toll of 1,000 people in four countries is likely below the actual number, the World Health Organization says.
The current outbreak is the largest since the virus’s discovery in 1976, with cases in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and, as of last week, Senegal. So far, there are more than 3,000 cases and 1,500 deaths, according to the World Health Organization, which also said the numbers are vastly underestimated.
The epidemic has taken what WHO calls an “unprecedented” toll on Africa’s health workers, infecting nearly 260 and killing more than 100 to date.

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