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American Doctor Infected with Ebola Is in Serious Condition

| July 29, 2014 Comment

The American doctor infected with Ebola is in serious condition. The doctor, Kent Brantly, is a medical missionary, and spent several months treating Ebola patients in Liberia before contracting the disease. He’s now in an isolation unit in Monrovia, Liberia. There is no known cure for the disease. Symptoms include high fever, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, and internal bleeding.

The disease spreads through direct contact with blood and other bodily fluids or indirectly through an environment contaminated with such fluids. Brantly wore full-body protective gear when treating patients, and  Liberia’s health ministry is investigating how he could have been infected.

Efforts to fly Brantly out to Europe for treatment have been thwarted for fears of spreading the virus. His wife and two young children left for the US just before he was diagnosed, and are currently in the US, arousing questions about whether they’re carriers of the disease. They’re said to be monitoring their temperatures for any signs of infection. More….

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