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Dr. Kent Brantly is the Samaritan’s Purse doctor who was transported to Emory hospital in early August 2014 after contracting Ebola in Liberia.  He recently told Greta Van Susteren that he contracted the virus from evaluating patients in the emergency room, outside the isolation unit where they treat Ebola patients. His comments have received little to no attention:     I am convinced I didn't contract Ebola inside the isolation unit. I was still also evaluating patients.  In Liberia. I was taking care of patients in the isolation unit, the Ebola treatment unit, but I was also evaluating patients in...

To cleanse the palate, your feelgood video of the day. Skip to 5:00 for Brantly’s portion of the presser; he speaks for more than seven minutes but the key bit, in which he describes coming down with Ebola, comes in the first three minutes. I didn’t know what to expect when I heard he’d be released but I’m surprised regardless at how fully he seems to have recovered. According to his own timeline, it’s been slightly less than a month between the moment he began to feel unwell and today’s triumphant reemergence. I’m curious to know how he thinks...

The two American Ebola patients, medical missionaries Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly, have walked out of Emory University Hospital in Atlanta infection-free. They were the first human beings to receive an experimental drug called ZMapp. But they are not the first people to have recovered from Ebola, and good hospital care is likely more responsible for their recovery than any mysterious “serum," as the charities they work for termed it. “They are the very first individuals to have ever receive this agent,” Dr. Bruce Ribner, director of Emory’s Infectious Disease Unit, told a news conference. “There is no prior...

Dr. Kent Brantly is doing well and expected to be released from the hospital soon after being treated for Ebola. "Dr. Kent Brantly is doing very well and hopes to be released sometime in the near future," a statement from Samaritan's Purse read. The staff at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia "are taking extremely great care of him." Dr. Brantly and Nancy Writebol, both missionaries working in Liberia with Ebola victims, became infected abroad and were brought back to the United States for treatment. They received an experimental drug, which is apparently working. Writebol is also improving, which bodes...

Ebola victim Dr. Kent Brantly is reportedly improving every day since being transported to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta last week, and an expert in the field of infectious diseases has said that there is no need for Americans to worry about contracting the disease. Dr. Rossi A. Hassad, a member of the American College of Epidemiology told The Christian Post that there is actually no need to be concerned about the disease spreading. "From a scientific perspective and based on evidence, panic is not warranted, but the general public does not have that knowledge or information. So when it...