Kent Brantly

Kent Brantly is an American doctor with the medical mission group Samaritan's Purse. While treating Ebola patients in Liberia, he contracted the disease. He became the first American to return to United States to be treated for the disease.[1]

In 2014, he, along with other medical professionals involved in treating Ebola patients, became the TIME Magazine's Person of the Year .[2][3] In October 2014 Brantly donated his blood three times to American Ebola patients.[4]

In 2015 Brantly gave the invocation at the National Prayer Breakfast attended by President of the United States Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Dallas nurse infected with Ebola gets blood transfusion from survivor, Associated Press in Dallas, theguardian.com, Tuesday 14 October 2014 12.33 BST
  2. ↑ TIME Person of the Year, The Doctors, The Ebola fighters in their own words, Dec. 10, 2014
  3. ↑ Medical Missionaries' Ebola Pullback: No More Kent Brantlys?, Deann Alford/ NOVEMBER 21, 2014
  4. ↑ http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/daily-news-article/why-blood-transfusions-from-ebola-survivor-dr-kent-brantly-could-help-patients/
  5. ↑ Tryggestad, Erik (2015-02-06). "Dr. Kent Brantly prays at National Prayer Breakfast". Chrstian Chronicle. Retrieved 2015-02-06.