--- title: At Least 1 American With Ebola To Be Discharged From Atlanta Hospital description: At least one American infected with Ebola while in Liberia and later sent to an Atlanta hospital for treatment is set to be discharged. canonical: https://time.com/3153434/ebola-atlanta-americans-discharge/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-21T11:27:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-01T08:58:08.254Z article:section: Health og:title: At Least 1 American With Ebola To Be Discharged From Atlanta Hospital og:description: At least one American infected with Ebola while in Liberia and later sent to an Atlanta hospital for treatment is set to be discharged. og:url: https://time.com/3153434/ebola-atlanta-americans-discharge/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5d42b87e929c3eb/69869ee63bc9992d971a4d77/453172004.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Ebola Stricken Dr. Kent Brantly In Liberia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: At Least 1 American With Ebola To Be Discharged From Atlanta Hospital twitter:description: At least one American infected with Ebola while in Liberia and later sent to an Atlanta hospital for treatment is set to be discharged. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5d42b87e929c3eb/69869ee63bc9992d971a4d77/453172004.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Americans With Ebola Discharged From Atlanta Hospital > Sponsored content. 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Meet The CDC Doctors Fighting Ebola_ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Aug 21, 2014 11:27 AM UTC Dr. Kent Brantly Released From Hospital by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Aug 21, 2014 11:27 AM UTC **Updated 12:10 p.m.** Two Americans who contracted Ebola while on an aid trip in West Africa have been discharged from Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital, officials said Thursday. Dr. Kent Brantly was released Thursday, while Nancy Writebol was released Tuesday, though her discharge wasn’t publicly known until now. Dr. Bruce Ribner, an infectious disease specialist at Emory who was leading the patients’ care, said his team determined in conjunction with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Atlanta’s Health Department that the patients are virus-free and can return home with no public health concerns. Ribner also defended the choice to bring the two Ebola-stricken Americans to Emory for treatment. “It was the right decision to bring these patients back to Emory to treat them,” Ribner said in a press conference Thursday. “What we learn from them will help advance the world’s understanding of how to treat Ebola virus infection, and help to improve survival in parts of the world where patients with Ebola are treated.” Brantly, the more public of the two American Ebola patients, gave a public statement thanking both his organization Samaritan’s Purse and the medical team at Emory. The smiling doctor looked well, and thanked God multiple times for his recovery. “Today is a miraculous day. I am thrilled to be alive, to be well, and to be reunited with my family,” he said. “\[In Liberia\] I prayed that in my life or in my death, that \[God\] would be glorified. I did not know then, but have learned since that there were thousands, maybe millions of people around the world praying for me that week . . . I cannot thank you enough for your prayers and your support . . . I serve a faithful God who answers prayers. God saved my life.” Writebol, the other American Ebola patient, asked for privacy and requested the hospital not give details about her recovery, which is why her discharge remained private. She did, however, ask Dr. Brantly to extend her thanks. “As she walked out of her isolation room, all she could say was, to God be the glory,” said Brantly. Both Writebol and Brantly said they will be spending time alone with their families for some time. The pair were brought to Emory as the hospital has an infectious disease unit specially equipped for treating serious communicable diseases. There is no vaccine or cure for Ebola, though the patients did receive a drug still in early stages of development. Dr. Ribner added that since the patients were the first humans to ever receive the drug, it is still unclear how it played a role in their recovery. The team of doctors treating the patients previously [told TIME ](http://time.com/3096724/doctors-inside-emorys-ebola-unit-speak-out/)that they hope what they learn from treating the patients can shed insight into the disease that can be shared with other physicians fighting Ebola, the latest global outbreak of which has claimed at least 1,350 lives, according to the latest World Health Organization numbers. “We are mindful of all of those in West Africa that are still fighting for their lives against this threat, and those who are carrying for them, putting their own lives in danger,” said Dr. Ribner. The Emory medical team will be releasing guidelines for physicians in West Africa to provide insight into what worked during the Americans’ treatment. ## Transcript This Ebola outbreak is unprecedented. This is definitely a marathon and not a sprint. The bugs have evolved. The outbreak has gotten bigger. We are only as strong as the weakest link, and we have learned from Ebola that West Africa was a very weak link. [ MUSIC ] There's small clinics, these are like one room places where sick people might go in their house with maybe an auxiliary nurse as some one who has a little bit of medical training, but defiantly not the same standards that we would have here in the US. We're facing 3 main threats. The first is the threat of new organisms. It was coming and spreading in different places. The second is drug- resistant bacteria, and the third are intentionally created organisms. What we do in an outbreak response is continuously see how can we make it better. The exercises we've gone through both, re- evaluating our own protocols but also understanding what the public and governmental responses are has really helped us understand. How to take care of these patients in the larger context of our healthcare systems. And, those who are in the building, I would urge you to come down to either the ops team room, or the, When designing a unit that is designed to accept patients with serious communicable diseases, like Ebola, there are ways to design a unit so that it's function. Functional. Any hospital that can isolate a patient in a single patient room with a bathroom and can follow our infection control recommendations is capable of safely caring for a patient with Ebola. And we've tried to encourage every single hospital in the country to have an antibiotic stewardship program to improve antibiotic prescribing practices. There is a concern about fatigue as we go on that, the CDC other groups have sort of ramping up now to try to surge resources into the area. What we're also realizing is, we need to be able to maintain that surge for many months to keep the pressure on to completely control the outbreak. Time will tell in the next few weeks if we can start to see those numbers going in the right direction. Fewer new cases each day or each week. The single most important thing to understand about protecting Americans from Ebola is that can best be done by stopping it at the source in Africa. 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