One of the U.S. patients affected is originally from Evergreen, she now lives in Charlotte. Our thoughts and prayers to her family, and all those affected by this insidious disease.
“Yesterday, an experimental serum arrived in the country, but there was only enough for one person. Dr. Brantly asked that it be given to Nancy Writebol,” Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, said in a statement.
Samaritan's Purse said Brantly and Writebol were still in grave condition.
The World Health Organization says 1,323 people have been infected with Ebola in the current outbreak and it has killed 729 people. WHO says it is still out of control in some places and people are carrying it across the borders of three neighboring West African countries: Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
The devoted husband of an American aid worker stricken with the Ebola virus is sticking by her despite the danger that keeps her isolated in a bungalow in Liberia, their son said Wednesday. “Dad will not leave mom,” Jeremy Writebol told NBC News.
Nancy Writebol, from Charlotte, was infected while working as an assistant to medical staff of the North Carolina-based aid group Samaritan’s Purse. Exactly how she contracted Ebola is a mystery.
“The doctors and those we've heard from have all reported that mom is in stable condition,” he said.
A former Colorado resident working in Liberia for a non-profit treating Ebola has tested positive for the disease.
Nancy Writebol, who is originally from Evergreen, is a missionary with Serving in Mission and was a part of a joint SIM/Samaritan's Purse team treating Ebola patients in Monrovia, according to Melissa Strickland, spokeswoman for the missionary group Samaritan's Purse.
Writebol's son, Jeremiah Writebol, declined to talk about her, saying that it is a difficult time for the family.
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Prayers for Nancy, Dr. Brantly, to all those who are providing aid and ebola patients and families. Many of the people I know who assist with Doctors Without Borders and other organizations are primarily in South America, but it is that contingency who also meet up with others who are helping in other parts of the world. Small world.
