It was an exciting day for Ebola survivor Ken Brantly.
The 33-year-old Texas doctor who contracted the deadly disease in Liberia — but was cured thanks to an experimental drug — was released from an Atlanta hospital Thursday.
The beaming, bearded, Fort Worth man was thrilled to get out from behind the glass of Emory University Hospital’s isolation area.
But to be safe, he can’t have sexual relations with his wife until the virus completely works its way out of his system, the World Health Organization said.
“Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the disease through their semen for up to seven weeks after they’ve recovered,” spokesman Dan Epstein told The Post.
The warning didn’t kill the mood.
“Today is a miraculous day. I’m thrilled to be alive, to be well and to be reunited with my family,” Brantly said during an emotional press conference at the hospital, where he spent 19 days.
After the press conference, the Brantlys were heading to an undisclosed location for “a period of time to reconnect, decompress, and continue to recover physically and emotionally,” he said.
Brantly is one of two Americans who were admitted to the Atlanta hospital after coming down with the hemorrhagic fever, which is ravaging West Africa. Christian missionary Nancy Writebol, 59, of Charlotte, NC, was also released from the facility this week, the hospital announced.
Brantly and Writebol “miraculously” recovered from the disease after being given an experimental Ebola-fighting drug called ZMapp.
They are the first two humans ever to receive the medication.
Brantly had become so violently sick that he called his wife, Amber, to say what he feared might be a final goodbye.
He contracted the virus while treating Ebola patients in the West African nation, and was flown to Emory on Aug. 2, while Writebol was sent to the hospital for treatment on Aug. 5.
The Ebola outbreak, which first emerged in Guinea in March, has already killed more than 1,350 people, and continues to claim new victims.
Melissa Strickland, a spokeswoman for Samaritan’s Purse, a North Carolina-based Christian relief organization that Brantly worked with in Liberia, told The Post that she spoke with him his release and he said “he was feeling strong and feeling good and just very grateful” to be alive.
The Brantlys have a young daughter and son.