Texas Doctor Infected With Ebole In Liberia Gives Away Vaccine

Texas Doctor Infected With Ebole In Liberia Gives Away Vaccine

A Texas doctor that was volunteering in an Ebola stricken part of Liberia has been himself infected with the deadly disease. In an impressive gest of sacrifice and selflessness Doctor Kent Brantly requested that the only dose of an experimental serum on hand be given to a fellow volunteer who is also infected and is called Nancy Writebol who hails from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Doctor Brantly will receive a blood transfusion from one of his former patients, a 14-year-old boy who the doctor saved from the deadly disease a while back. According to volunteers and missions serving on the scene in Liberia the two U.S. citizens were in grave but somewhat stable condition, even though both of them seem to have taken a turn for the worst in recent days.

Doctor Brantly’s parents have thanked their son’s supporters for their prayers and well wishes while Nancy Writebol’s husband is on the scene in Liberia, however, is only allowed to visit his ill wife if equipped with a hazmat suit.

White House representatives said that preparations are being made to evacuate the two as they have done with similar cases of SARS or tuberculosis outbreaks. Doctor Kent Brantly is the medical director of Samaritan’s Purse Ebola Relief Center located near Liberia’s capital city called Monrovia while Writebol was a hospital hygienist that was also working in a humanitarian mission.

The CDC has advised all US citizens to avoid travelling to Liberia as well as Sierra Leone or Guinea due to the serious Ebola outbreak that has already claimed 700 lives.

Posted by George Daniels on Sunday August 03 2014, 8:04 AM EST. Ref: nydailynews. Link. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, Health. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0