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An American doctor who contracted Ebola will be released today
from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, with details expected on the
release of a second patient who also contracted the disease.
Ebola Patients to Return Home
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Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, contracted the deadly virus while working in a
Liberian Ebola ward with the aid agency Samaritan’s Purse. He was evacuated
to the U.S. earlier this month along with coworker Nancy Writebol.
Brantly is slated to speak at a press conference today, with an update about
Writebol also planned.
What's Happening Now in the Ebola Outbreak
American Doctor With Ebola Received Experimental Antibody Serum Before U.S.
Arrival
How Did Ebola Patients Get Experimental Serum?
Brantly is the first-ever Ebola patient to be treated in the U.S. and the
first human to receive the experimental serum known as ZMapp.
According to reports, Brantly’s condition deteriorated so quickly that
doctors in Africadecided to give him the drug in a last-ditch effort to
save him.
Courtesy Samaritan's Purse
PHOTO: Dr. Kent Brantly speaks with a worker outside the ELWA Hospital in
Monrovia, Liberia
Brantly’s condition started to improve dramatically within an hour after
getting the serum, according to Samaritan’s Purse, but it’s unclear if the
improvement was directly related to the medication. After his health
stabilized, Brantly was evacuated on a specially outfitted plane to Atlanta
in early August to the hospital isolation ward.
Courtesy Jeremy Writebol/AP Photo
PHOTO: This Oct. 7, 2013 photo provided by Jeremy Writebol shows his mother,
Nancy Writebol, with children in Liberia.
Writebol, 59, also survived after getting the serum.
The virus has killed at least 1,229 and sickened 1,011 more, according to
numbers released Tuesday by the World Health Organization. Guinea, Sierra
Leone and Liberia have the most cases.
With reporting by ABC's Sydney Lupkin. |
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