--- title: Emory Univeristy Hospital's Third Ebola Patient is Discharged description: This is the third patient to successfully survive the disease at Emory canonical: https://time.com/3525570/emory-third-ebola-patient-discharged/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-20T20:25:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:54:11.531Z article:section: Health og:title: Emory's Third Ebola Patient is Discharged og:description: This is the third patient to successfully survive the disease at Emory og:url: https://time.com/3525570/emory-third-ebola-patient-discharged/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emory's Third Ebola Patient is Discharged twitter:description: This is the third patient to successfully survive the disease at Emory twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Emory's Third Ebola Patient is Discharged by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Oct 20, 2014 8:25 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Oct 20, 2014 8:25 PM UTC A third unnamed patient with Ebola being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta has survived the virus and has been discharged. The patient, who asked to remain anonymous and is not one of the Dallas nurses, arrived at Emory on Sept. 9\. Emory University Hospital announced on Monday that the patient was determined to be free of the virus and was discharged on Sunday Oct. 19. The hospital has also successfully treated the two missionaries Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol. They are currently treating one of the Dallas nurses with Ebola who was flown from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to Emory on Oct. 15. Emory has a [specialized serious communicable disease unit](http://time.com/3096724/doctors-inside-emorys-ebola-unit-speak-out/) with an infectious disease team that had been training for the possibility of a case like Ebola for a decade. **MORE:** [Doctors Inside Emory’s Ebola Unit Speak Out](http://time.com/3096724/doctors-inside-emorys-ebola-unit-speak-out/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3525570/emory-third-ebola-patient-discharged/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3525570/emory-third-ebola-patient-discharged/"},"headline":"Emory's Third Ebola Patient is Discharged","datePublished":"2014-10-20T20:25:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:54:11.531Z","description":"This is the third patient to successfully survive the disease at Emory","url":"https://time.com/3525570/emory-third-ebola-patient-discharged/","keywords":["ebola","atlanta","Dallas","Ebola outbreak"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3525570/emory-third-ebola-patient-discharged/","name":"Emory's Third Ebola Patient is Discharged"}}]}] ```