--- title: Emory University Hospital Will Receive Another Ebola Patient description: This will be the hospital's third patient with Ebola in the past couple months canonical: https://time.com/3306305/emory-university-hospital-will-receive-another-ebola-patient/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-08T22:12:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:43.536Z article:section: Health og:title: Emory University Hospital Will Receive Another Ebola Patient og:description: This will be the hospital's third patient with Ebola in the past couple months og:url: https://time.com/3306305/emory-university-hospital-will-receive-another-ebola-patient/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86e8a1c3a6058805/6986a384cd6848481b096771/emory-hospital.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2100 og:image:height: 1181 og:image:alt: Emory Hospital To Receive American Ebola Patients From Liberia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emory University Hospital Will Receive Another Ebola Patient twitter:description: This will be the hospital's third patient with Ebola in the past couple months twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86e8a1c3a6058805/6986a384cd6848481b096771/emory-hospital.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Emory University Hospital Will Receive Another Ebola Patient > Sponsored content. 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[Watch (HLS stream): Why Do People Fear Ebola?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/o73TUhFa.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2014-08-10. Jay Varkey, MD, Assistant Professor of Emory University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases on treating Ebola patients and the fear that goes with it._ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Sep 8, 2014 10:12 PM UTC  Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, seen in August 2014. Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, seen in August 2014. Jessica McGowan—Getty Images by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Sep 8, 2014 10:12 PM UTC Emory University Hospital will be receiving another patient with Ebola from West Africa on Tuesday, the hospital confirmed. The hospital was informed that the patient is being transported via air ambulance to be brought into Emory’s isolation unit. The hospital says it does not know what time the patient will arrive but that the isolation unit will be the same ward where the infectious-disease team [successfully treated Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol](http://time.com/3270016/ebola-survivor-kent-brantly/), who both survived the disease. “We are bound by patient confidentiality and have no information regarding the status of the incoming patient,” the Atlanta-based hospital said in a statement. The incoming patient will be the fourth patient to be treated with Ebola in the U.S. Currently, another patient is being treated for the disease in an isolation unit in Omaha. The hospital’s isolation unit was specifically built with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in order to treat patients exposed to serious communicable diseases. Since the Emory University Hospital campus is just minutes away from CDC headquarters, the hospital has a relationship with the CDC and a commitment to treat their health care workers. However, both the patients the hospital has treated in the past were independent health care missionaries. As TIME [previously reported](http://time.com/3096724/doctors-inside-emorys-ebola-unit-speak-out/), Emory’s unit has been around for over a decade, and the physicians in the unit practice for these types of patients multiple times a year. Read more about the unit [here](http://time.com/3096724/doctors-inside-emorys-ebola-unit-speak-out/). ## Transcript So, why do people fear Ebola. It's new. Or at least it's recognized as being new here in the United States. It is a serious illness, but it's not a very contagious disease. This is not a particularly easy virus to transmit from one person to another. The whole notion of abating fear, when you talk about a disease that's reported to have. 50 to 60 to 90 % mortality rates. I would really caution on, something that we've been emphasizing for the last two weeks that that really needs to be taken with the recognition that those are mortality rates in healthcare environments that unfortunately do not have even close to the resources that we have here in the United States and other developed countries. The key to treatment for Ebola virus is supportive care. Supporting the patient long enough so that their immune system can develop the antibodies needed to really defeat this virus. We were sort of in a unique position of having this unit that was designed to take care of diseases far more contagious than the Ebola virus. But in this particular circumstance, it seemed like the right place to to care for these patients. My hope is, is that by providing excellent care here, that we learn process that can be translated and expanded so that, that, in my opinion, in a fair and just world, that those processes if they are really a key to improving survival. 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