--- description: The American patient being treated for Ebola at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was released on Thursday title: American Treated for Ebola Released From NIH Hospital image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Health](/section/health/) ## Health Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [ebola](/tag/ebola/) ## ebola Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # American Treated for Ebola Released From NIH Hospital by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 10, 2015 2:31 AM CUT by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 10, 2015 2:31 AM CUT The American patient being treated for Ebola at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was declared Ebola-free and [released](http://www.pih.org/blog/partners-in-health-clinician-leaves-hospital-free-of-ebola "undefined") on Thursday. The patient, whose identity has not been released, was volunteering for the aid group Partners in Health (PIH) in Sierra Leone, one of the three countries hit hardest during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The patient had arrived [for treatment](http://time.com/3760301/american-ebola-patient-improving/ "undefined") at the NIH treatment unit in Bethesda, Md., on March 13. PIH says the patient, who had two Ebola tests come back negative before NIH declared them Ebola-free, was one of several of the aid group’s volunteers who were brought back to the United States for monitoring. None of the other volunteers were infected. The group says two of its volunteers who returned to the U.S. for precautionary monitoring are heading back to Sierra Leone to continue their work. “We’re cheering here in rural Liberia and in Sierra Leone, and are sure our co-workers in Boston and Haiti and Rwanda and Peru and elsewhere are too,” Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder and chief strategist for PIH, said in a [statement](http://www.pih.org/blog/partners-in-health-clinician-leaves-hospital-free-of-ebola "undefined"). The PIH volunteer is the second person with Ebola to be successfully treated for Ebola at the NIH. The facility’s team also treated Dallas nurse Nina Pham, who contracted Ebola last fall after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. To date, there have been 25,178 cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia and 10,445 have died from the disease. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3816352/american-ebola-hospital-released/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3816352/american-ebola-hospital-released/"},"headline":"American Treated for Ebola Released From NIH Hospital","datePublished":"2015-04-10T02:31:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:17:35.587Z","description":"Patient was volunteering for an aid group in Sierra Leone","url":"https://time.com/3816352/american-ebola-hospital-released/","keywords":["ebola","American","NIH"],"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/3816352/american-ebola-hospital-released/","name":"American Treated for Ebola Released From NIH Hospital"}}]}] ```