Boston Globe 9/3/14: Mass. doctor is third from US with Ebola virus. The brother of Dr. Rick Sacra, the third American who has been stricken with the deadly Ebola virus, said Sacra was doing his life’s work helping the sick in a Liberian hospital when he was infected. “He’s a really great, self-sacrificing guy, and he’s just always really cared about the people in Liberia,” Doug Sacra said in a telephone interview. “We are desperately praying that he’ll recover.” Rick Sacra, 51, had worked in Liberia since 1995, said his brother, and returned to the West African country on Aug. 1 after spending much of the last year traveling back and forth between Liberia and Holden, Mass., where he has a wife and three sons.
Sacra is a 1980 graduate of Wayland High School.
