U.S. doctor stricken with Ebola said to be improving An American doctor stricken with the deadly Ebola virus while in Liberia and brought to the United States for treatment in a special isolation ward is improving, the top U.S. health official said on Sunday. Dr Kent Brantly was able to walk, with help, from an ambulance after he was flown on Saturday to Atlanta, where he is being treated by infectious disease specialists at Emory University Hospital. Its encouraging that he seems to be improving - thats really important - and were hoping hell continue to improve, said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Frieden told CBSs Face the Nation it was too soon to predict whether Brantly would survive, and a hospital spokesman said Emory did not expect to provide any updates on the doctors condition on Sunday. Brantly is a 33-year-old father of two young children who works for the North Carolina-based Christian organization, Samaritans Purse. He was in Liberia responding to the worst Ebola outbreak on record when he contracted the disease.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 03:01:27 +0000