OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An American aid worker who’s been cleared of the Ebola virus says he feels great but is still very weak.

Massachusetts doctor Rick Sacra hugged his wife for the first time in nearly two months Thursday morning after he was released from an isolation unit at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Sacra says he never felt like he wouldn’t survive the virus, believed to have killed more than 2,900 people in West Africa. The 51-year-old says the odds are “pretty high” that he’ll return to Africa at some point but he expects a long recovery.

Doctors have said the combination of treatments Sacra received makes it difficult to know what helped him fight off Ebola.

Two other American aid workers who contracted the virus were treated at a hospital in Atlanta.

 

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The third American aid worker who contracted Ebola in Africa has been released from a Nebraska hospital.

Dr. Rick Sacra said he has been released from the Nebraska Medical Center at Thursday’s news conference.

The 51-year-old from Worcester, Massachusetts, began improving shortly after he arrived in Omaha on Sept. 5. He contracted Ebola while working at a hospital in Liberia.

Two other American missionaries who contracted Ebola were treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, and released after recovering. A fourth American with Ebola is still being treated in Atlanta.