A Massachusetts doctor who returned to Liberia after two others fell ill has contracted Ebola, missionary group says.
Health workers at Ebola isolation camp in Monrovia, Liberia.
Reuters
SIM Missionary Group President Bruce Johnson says Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, returned to Liberia a month ago after another doctor, Kent Brantly — with the group Samarian's Purse, a partner of SIM — and a SIM missionary, Nancy Writebol, became ill with Ebola.
Sacra was treating obstetrics patients in a separate facility and it is not yet known how he contracted the Ebola virus.
Sacra is currently in isolation in Liberia, the missionary group said Tuesday.
Johnson told the Associated Press the group does not know whether Sacra will return to the U.S. for treatment.
Liberian health workers outside a home of a man that they believed died from the Ebola virus in Monrovia.
AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh
"He's a really great, self-sacrificing guy, and he's just always really cared about the people in Liberia," said Doug Sacra. "That's his life's work. He's been there for a long time, and he planned to stay there for a long time."
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