Brantly: Ebola battle far from over
FORT WORTH — The nation’s attention has shifted away from the lethal Ebola virus because there are no active cases in the U.S., survivor Dr. Kent Brantly said Tuesday, but he urged the American public to remember that the fight still rages in West Africa.
“We need to be careful that our sense of compassion is not replaced by indifference,” Brantly said in response to questions after he was awarded a proclamation at a packed Tarrant County Comissioners Court meeting, where he received two standing ovations.
Brantly, 33, who did his residency at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, became the first U.S. face of Ebola after he contracted the disease in July while serving as a missionary physician in West Africa. He was airlifted to Emory University Hospital and survived, but he said it was a close call.
“Thursday, the 31st of July, I almost died,” he said Tuesday. “And my doctors thought I was about to die, my caretakers in the room thought I was about to die, and they sent out the word asking everyone to pray for me. And that was the night I received ZMapp, the experimental drug, and I had a very dramatic response to that drug and to that course of prayer that was being lifted up for me around the world.”
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