WASHINGTON: An American doctor who has contracted the dangerous Ebola virus in Liberia is “weak and quite ill,” a colleague of his said yesterday.
Kent Brantly, 33, became infected with Ebola while working with patients in the Liberian capital of Monrovia as he helped treat victims of the worst Ebola outbreak in history.
Brantly and another American healthcare worker, Nancy Writebol, are among the more than 1,200 people who have become infected with Ebola in West Africa since March.
More than 670 people have died, including Omar Khan, a leading Ebola doctor in Sierra Leone, who passed away on Tuesday after being hospitalized with the virus last week.
Brantly “is not doing well. He is still in the early stages of the Ebola infection but having some daily struggles,” David Mcray, a family medicine doctor in Fort Worth, Texas, told AFP by phone.
“He has requested that I not talk in detail about his symptoms and what he is experiencing, but he is weak and quite ill.”
Mcray said he has been speaking with Brantly by phone daily, most recently on Monday. He said he had not yet reached him yesterday, but he had spoken with Brantly’s wife.
AFP
