Mass. Doctor Declared Free Of Ebola Virus Returns To Bay State

OMAHA, Neb. (CBS/AP) — The Nebraska doctors treating an aid worker from Massachusetts who contracted the deadly Ebola virus in Africa last month declared Thursday he is free of the virus. Dr. Rick Sacra landed at Worcester Airport Thursday evening after being released in the morning from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Rick Sacra steps off a plane in Worcester. (WBZ-TV) He had been in the hospital’s isolation ward since he arrived from Liberia on Sept. 5. “The CDC has declared me safe and fee of virus. Thank God. I love you all,” Sacra said at a press conference Thursday morning when he was released. Before the press conference began, Sacra posed for a photo with the doctors and nurses who treated him. Watch the press conference University of Nebraska Medical Center Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold opened the press conference declaring, “Well, ladies and gentleman. Nebraska 1, Ebola O.” The 51-year-old from Holden, Mass., contracted Ebola while working at a hospital in Liberia with the North Carolina-based missionary group SIM. “I feel great, except that I am extremely weak,” Sacra said. He added: “I never felt like I was not going to make it. The care was so excellent, so speedy and so prompt.” Sacra has a family practice in Worcester and also teaches at UMass Medical School. Debbie Sacra spent most of the news conference watching her husband of 29 years instead of the room full of reporters and hospital w...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Watch Listen Beth Germano CBS Boston Debbie Sacra Doctor Ebola Holden Nebraska Medical Center Rick Sacra Worcester Source Type: news