American Doctor Sick With Ebola Now Fighting For His Life
He immediately put himself into an isolation ward.
"He is still conversing and is in isolation. But he is seriously ill with a very grave prognosis," says Dr. David Mccray, of John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, who spoke to Brantly by phone on Monday.
"Kent is a calm, confident, focused individual, with a deep calling for the work that he's doing," Mccray says.
After Brantly completed his residency at John Peter Smith Hospital in 2013, he traveled to West Africa with his wife and two children to work with the Christian aid group Samaritan's Purse.
Then the Ebola outbreak started in March. And Samaritan's Purse asked Brantly to direct the group's Ebola Consolidated Case Management Center in Monrovia.
“ Many people are infected with Ebola in Africa, and many people are not surviving. And Kent does not see his situation as unique in any way.