Emory doctors gather Ebola patients 5 years after treatment

ATLANTA – Some of the first US patients successfully treated for the Ebola virus found their doctors Friday at Emory University Hospital.

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Dr. Kent Brantly, a missionary and doctor infected with the virus in 2014 while he was treating patients in Liberia, was the first patient with Ebola to be taken to the United States for treatment at the clinic. Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

Brantly and US aid worker Nancy Writebol contracted the disease in Liberia while working with the Samaritan's Purse, a faith-based charity. They arrived at Emory on August 2nd., 2014 and August 4, 2014 and were taken to isolation units.

Three weeks later, Emory announced that Brantly was released and Writebol had already been released.

They had recovered from the virus and officials at Emory said they were not a threat to the general public. According to officials of Emory, they were the first Ebola patients to be treated at an institution in the United States.

It was a moving meeting when the two medical missionaries returned to Emory University Hospital on Friday morning.

They visited the Communicable Disease Unit where they had stayed and seen their old rooms.

Both said that there was a drastic difference in a lot more than physical care they received in Liberia.

They said the emotional support and connections they had developed at the hospital made their stay there. unforgettable.

"It was a time and a place where I knew everything would be fine, remembering those times when things were so bad, but knowing that everything would be fine.,"Brantly said Friday.

As a new Ebola epidemic breaks out in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Brantly and Writebol have announced plans to return to Africa later this year.

This is the second largest epidemic ever recorded and it has now spread to a new city. That's why a third patient treated at Emory University Hospital was unable to attend Friday's appearance.

The World Health Organization has moved it urgently into Congo's highly uncertain zone to continue fighting the Ebola outbreak.

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