A third American aid worker has been diagnosed with Ebola.

The missionary group SIM USA announced Tuesday that one of its American doctors has been diagnosed with Ebola in Liberia. The doctor was treating pregnant women and those giving birth, in the capital city of Monrovia.

He was not treating Ebola patients in the hospital's isolation unit, however. The group said in a statement that it isn't known how the doctor was infected. The doctor isolated himself as soon as he developed symptoms and has been transferred to the Ebola isolation unit. He is doing well and is in good spirits, according to SIM USA.

More than 240 health care workers have been diagnosed with Ebola in the West African outbreak, and more than half have died, according to the World Health Organization. In all, Ebola has infected more than 3,000 people and killed more than 1,500 in this outbreak, the largest in history.

“My heart was deeply saddened, but my faith was not shaken, when I learned another of our missionary doctors contracted Ebola,” said Bruce Johnson, president of SIM USA, in a statement. “We have gifted Liberian doctors, medical staff and support staff who are carrying on the fight.”

Another aid worker with SIM USA, Nancy Writebol, also became infected with Ebola while working in Liberia. She was flown to the USA for treatment with one of the few doses of an experimental medication, ZMapp, and survived. Writebol is scheduled to make a public statement Wednesday. The maker of ZMapp, based in San Diego, has said its supplies of the unapproved drug are gone.

Another American doctor, Kent Brantly, also developed Ebola while working in Liberia with a different aid group, Samaritan's Purse. He also was flown to the USA for treatment. He received both ZMapp as well as a transfusion from an African teenager who survived Ebola. Both Brantly and Writebol were released from the hospital last month. Neither had any sign of Ebola virus in their blood.

•Source: USA Today. Photo shows Missionary Nancy Writebol, one of three Americans working for missionary groups in Liberia who were infected with the Ebola virus.

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