A third Ebola patient will go to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta

An Ebola patient will be brought from West Africa to Atlanta for treatment at Emory University Hospital’s isolation unit, the hospital said Monday.

The patient is expected to arrive Tuesday morning and will be treated at the same facility where two American missionaries were treated this summer, the hospital said. Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, and Nancy Writebol, 59, were discharged last month after medical officials determined that they had recovered and were not contagious anymore.

The hospital would not disclose the incoming patient’s condition, nationality, identity or any further details.

Earlier Monday, the World Health Organization said one of its doctors working at an Ebola care facility in Sierra Leone tested positive for the Ebola virus and would be evacuated for treatment. It is not known whether that doctor is the patient who will be treated at Emory.

On Friday, an American doctor and missionary who was infected while caring for Ebola patients in Liberia was taken to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, has shown some improvement but is still “very sick,” his wife said over the weekend.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the worst on record, having killed more than 2,000 people so far. It was first detected in Guinea in March and spread across the border to Sierra Leone and Liberia. Cases have also been reported in Nigeria and Senegal.

The hemorrhagic virus is spread via bodily fluids, and there is no vaccine. Typically, Ebola patients’ symptoms are treated in hopes of stabilizing them long enough for their immune systems to fight off the virus.

Brantly and Writebol recovered after receiving an experimental drug, ZMapp, but it’s unclear whether the drug helped them. The company that makes ZMapp has said it has no more doses available.

Times staff writer Alexandra Zavis contributed to this report.

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