Former Fort Worth doctor with Ebola is back in U.S.

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By Faith Karimi, Jason Hanna and Greg Botelho

Atlanta (CNN) -- The medical plane transporting American Ebola patient Dr. Kent Brantly has landed at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Georgia, the company that operates the plane told CNN. The patient is stable, and will be transported to Emory University Hospital.

Dr. Kent Brantly became gravely ill with Ebola while trying to help victims of a major outbreak in West Africa. On Saturday, he'll become the first known patient to be treated for the deadly viral hemorrhagic fever while in the United States.

A specially equipped medical plane is expected to deliver Brantly, one of two American missionary workers stricken by Ebola in Liberia last month, to the Atlanta-area Dobbins Air Reserve Base on Saturday afternoon, a spokesman for the charity he was serving said.

From there, Brantly, 33, will be taken to Atlanta's Emory University Hospital, where physicians believe they'll have a better chance to steer him back to health.

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Both Brantly, of Fort Worth, Texas, and fellow U.S. missionary Nancy Writebol were caring for Ebola patients in Liberia, one of three West African nations hit by an outbreak that health officials believe has sickened more than 1,300 people and killed more than 700 this year.

After delivering Brantly, organizers expect the plane will return to Liberia to pick up Writebol, and they hope she can be brought to Georgia early next week, said Todd Shearer, spokesman for Christian charity Samaritan's Purse with whom both Americans were affiliated.

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