WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts doctor who is one of three American aid workers successfully treated after contracting the Ebola virus in West Africa said Friday that as soon as he came down with a fever and chills on Aug. 29 he feared he had the disease.Dr. Richard Sacra said during a news conference at the University of Massachusetts Medical School that "I thought I might die."
Sacra, with his wife Debbie by his side, said he had no regrets about going to Liberia to help pregnant women deliver babies, and will almost certainly return in the future.
Sacra, who lives in nearby Holden, says he's tired, his legs are wobbly, and he expects it to take two or three months for him to fully recover.
He returned to Massachusetts after being treated a special hospital unit in Nebraska.
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