Ebola World View: Who Has It and Where
A look at Ebola treatment outside of West Africa.
— -- intro: There have been at least 16 cases of Ebola treated outside of West Africa since the current outbreak began in April. Here is a look at the individuals who have been diagnosed with the virus and how they have treated around the world.
quicklist: 1category: Ebola World View: Who Has It and Wheretitle: Kent Brantlyurl:text: Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, worked with the aid group Samaritan’s Purse in Liberia , one of the most Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa. Brantly told reporters he held the hands of patients as they lay dying from the deadly virus.
Brantly was given the first dose of an experimental drug ZMapp before being flown back to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for treatment. He has made a full recovery and was discharged from the hospital in August. Since then, he has given blood products on at least three separate occasions, including a recent donation to Nina Pham, the nurse who was infected in Dallas.media: 24807044
quicklist: 2category: Ebola World View: Who Has It and Wheretitle: Nancy Writebolurl:text: Nancy Writebol, 59, also worked for Samaritan’s Purse in Liberia and was infected around the same time as Brantly. She was flown to Emory for treatment a few days after Brantly and also received a dose of ZMapp.
Like Brantly, she received supportive therapy while at Emory, a form of treatment that supports the patient’s immune system as they battle the virus. She was discharged from the hospital after testing negative for Ebola in late August.media: 25230180
quicklist: 3category: Ebola World View: Who Has It and Wheretitle: Dr. Rick Sacraurl:text: Dr. Rick Sacra, a doctor and missionary working for the organization Serving in Mission, was diagnosed with Ebola. He was treating patients in the maternity ward of the ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. He was not treating Ebola patients.
Sacra, 51, was flown to the Nebraska Medical Center in early September and was the first to receive a blood transfusion from Brantly. Sacra made a full recovery and was discharged in late September. Though fully recovered, his immune system was weakened. He was admitted to a Massachusetts hospital last week with a respiratory infection but has since been released. media: 25755960
quicklist: 4category: Ebola World View: Who Has It and Wheretitle: Unknown WHO Aid Workerurl:text: An unknown World Health Organization worker in Sierra Leone was flown to Emory University Hospital Sept. 9. As of Oct. 14 he is still being treated and his condition is unknown. The hospital says privacy rules do not permit them to divulge any additional information.media:24814689
quicklist: 5category: Ebola World View: Who Has It and Wheretitle: Ashoka Mukpourl:text: The freelance camera operator was infected in Liberia while working for NBC News. He was flown to Nebraska on Oct. 6 to receive treatment. He has also received blood products from Brantly. He has recently tweeted that he is on the road to recovery.media:26184243
quicklist: 6category: Ebola World View: Who Has It and Wheretitle: Thomas Duncanurl:text: Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil, first arrived in the U.S. at the end of September from Liberia to visit family. On Sept. 26, he made his first visit to Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas where he told a nurse he had recently come from West Africa, but was sent home with a course of antibiotics. Two days later he returned to the hospital by ambulance and was put in isolation.
Duncan was treated with the experimental drug brincidofovir, but he died on Oct. 8.
Much of Ducan’s family remains in mandatory isolation, along with about 50 other individuals. So far, none of Duncan’s contacts have shown symptoms though he is known to have infected at least one person, Nina Pham, one of the nurses who cared for him.media:26049873
quicklist: 7category: Ebola World View: Who Has It and Wheretitle: Nina Phamurl:text: On Oct. 12, Nina Pham, a nurse who cared for Duncan, tested positive for Ebola and is now in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. It is yet unknown how she contracted Ebola.
Pham, 26, is the first person to contract Ebola while in the United States. And yesterday she became the third person to receive blood products from Brantly. Her dog -- a King Charles Spaniel named Bentley – will not be euthanized, Dallas health officials said. Instead, the dog has been placed in isolation until health officials can determine the risk, if any, he might pose.media: 26184153
quicklist: 8category: Ebola World View: Who Has It and Wheretitle: Spainurl:text: There have been three cases of Ebola on Spanish soil, including two Spanish priests who died after being flown to a hospital in Madrid for treatment. Both contracted the virus in West Africa while working with patients there.
Teresa Romero, a nurse’s aide who cared for both priests, recently tested positive for Ebola. She is in stable condition and doctors have said they are cautiously optimistic for her recovery. Currently there are at least 15 people who Romero came into contact with who are being monitored for signs of infection.media:26185222
quicklist: 9category: Ebola World View: Who Has It and Wheretitle: Germanyurl:text: An unknown German patient who was a 53-year-old United Nations employee who had been working in Liberia died today, the Associated Press reported. Germany has had two other cases of Ebola: A Senegalese man who was released from a Hamburg hospital earlier this month and a Ugandan man is still being cared for at a hospital in Frankfurt.media: 26185406
quicklist: 10category: Ebola World View: Who Has It and Wheretitle: Britainurl:text: British nurse William Pooley, is the only known person to be treated for Ebola in Britain. He contracted the virus in Sierra Leone in September and was flown back to the UK where he made a full recovery.
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quicklist: 11category: Ebola World View: Who Has It and Wheretitle: Franceurl:text: An unidentified French nurse was infected in September while treating patients in Liberia. The volunteer for Doctors Without Borders was flown home and, according to a statement from the French health ministry, has made a full recovery. As part of her treatment, the nurse was given an Avigan, an influenza drug according to its maker, Fujifilm. media: 26185461
quicklist: 12category: Ebola World View: Who Has It and Wheretitle: Norwayurl:text: An unidentified Norwegian woman who was infected in Sierra Leone received one of the last known doses of ZMapp earlier this month, according to Norwegian health officials. The drug is one of at least 10 medications and three vaccines in development for Ebola. But there is currently no known cure or treatment.media: 26185320
quicklist: 13category: Ebola World View: Who Has It and Wheretitle: West Africaurl:text: New WHO statistics list 8,914 confirmed Ebola cases, with 4,447 deaths in West Africa. The countries hardest hit by the outbreak are Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The agency has said the numbers and death rate will spike much higher if the response to the crisis isn’t stepped up soon. media:23145849
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