An Ebola patient sent to Emory University Hospital Sept. 9 has left the hospital virus-free, Emory said in a press release.
The patient, the third with Ebola virus disease to be taken to Emory, on Sunday became the third to be released. Emory said the man asked to remain anonymous and "will make a statement at a later date." CNN has noted that the man arrived at Emory at about the same time as a World Health Organization doctor was evacuated from Sierra Leone.
The hospital did not disclose where the patient went.
His departure leaves Emory's Serious Communicable Disease Unit with one Ebola patient -- a nurse from Dallas who was flown to Atlanta last week from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. The nurse, Amber Vinson, was one of two health care workers at the Dallas hospital who were infected with Ebola after treating the so-called "index patient" Thomas Eric Duncan.
Emory is one of four U.S. hospitals with specially equipped isolation units; so far, only three have taken in Ebola patients: Emory, a hospital in Nebraska, and a National Institutes of Health center in Maryland.
News that the CDC cleared Vinson to fly from Cleveland to Dallas while running a low-grade fever drew protests from around the nation. In a statement Sunday, Vinson's family defended the nurse, who is 29.
"Suggestions that she ignored any of the physician and government-provided protocols recommended to her are patently untrue and hurtful," the family added. "(We) remain intensely prayerful and optimistic about Amber’s condition and of the treatment she is currently receiving."
