Praise God!
Today is a miraculous day. I am thrilled to be alive, to be
well and to be reunited with my family. As a medical missionary,
I never imagined myself in this position. When my family and I
moved to Liberia last October to begin a two-year term working
with Samaritan’s Purse, Ebola was not on the radar. We moved to
Liberia because God called us to serve the people of Liberia.
~ Dr. Kent Brantly
August 21, 2014 ~
Dr. Kent Brantly, the Samaritan’s Purse doctor who contracted Ebola while caring for patients in Liberia, will be released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta today after completing his recovery from the deadly virus.
“Today I join all of our Samaritan’s Purse team around the world in giving thanks to God as we celebrate Dr. Kent Brantly’s recovery from Ebola and release from the hospital,” Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham said in a statement. “Over the past few weeks I have marveled at Dr. Brantly’s courageous spirit as he has fought this horrible virus with the help of the highly competent and caring staff at Emory University Hospital. His faithfulness to God and compassion for the people of Africa have been an example to us all.”
[Source: Samaritan’s Purse]
Dr. Brantly survived the virus that typically causes massive internal bleeding and has a mortality rate of 60 to 90 percent in most situations. The current outbreak of Ebola has claimed more than 1,350 lives in the west African countries of Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone […]
Dr. Brantly was serving with Samaritan’s Purse when he contracted Ebola while treating patients in Liberia. Earlier this month, he was transported to Atlanta in a medical evacuation plane equipped with a special containment unit. He was taken to Emory University Hospital, where he was treated at a special unit set up in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to care for patients exposed to certain serious infectious diseases. [Source: Samaritan’s Purse]
As I lay in my bed in Liberia for the following nine days,
getting sicker and weaker each day, I prayed that God would
help me to be faithful even in my illness, and I prayed that
in my life or in my death, He would be glorified.
~ Dr. Kent Brantly
Read Dr. Brantly’s full statement HERE
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Nancy Writebol, the other Ebola victim transported back the U.S., has also made a successful recovery. So now that the experimental drug treatment worked – let’s get it over to Africa ASAP!
Please continue to pray for Liberia and the people of West Africa,
and encourage those in positions of leadership and influence to do
everything possible to bring this Ebola outbreak to an end.
~ Dr. Kent Brantly
