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BainsBane

(53,035 posts)
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 08:20 AM Aug 2014

Ebola-infected doctor's extraordinary sacrifice

Even from his own sickbed in Africa, American physician Kent Brantly continues putting the well-being of others before his own.

Brantly, a medical missionary in West Africa, and fellow American Nancy Writebol both contracted Ebola last weekend. They spent the past several days under quarantine and are struggling to survive.

On Wednesday, an experimental serum arrived in Monrovia, Liberia, but there was only enough dosage for one patient. . .

The organization said Brantly, a married father of two young children, took a “slight turn for the worse overnight.” Samaritan’s Purse says Brantly and Writebol, 60, remain in grave but stable condition.


http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-stricken-doctors-gracious-gesture-171822279.html
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Ebola-infected doctor's extraordinary sacrifice (Original Post) BainsBane Aug 2014 OP
But he apparently received an experimental blood transfusion. longship Aug 2014 #1

longship

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1. But he apparently received an experimental blood transfusion.
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 08:44 AM
Aug 2014

From a 14 year old Ebola survivor.

I suspect that is why they are expending the resources to move these two patients to Atlanta where they can get them under controlled conditions and where they will be close to the Ebola experts at the CDC.

They will be in the best of hands. But they are both on experimental treatments and Ebola mortality is very high.

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