The two US Doctors who were been treated for the deadly Ebola viral disease after being infected in Liberia ,were onThursday, discharged from a United States hospital.
“Today is a miraculous day,” Dr Kent Brantly, one of the doctors, said at a Thursday news conference in Atlanta, Georgia, with Emory University Hospital staff members.
“I am thrilled to be alive, to be well and to be reunited with my family,” Brantly said. The hospital had announced that he was being discharged on Thursday.
The other patient, Nancy Writebol, was released on Tuesday and she chose not to make public comments, the hospital said.
Emory’s staff, according to CNN, is confident that their discharges pose “no public health threat.” Dr. Bruce Ribner, director of Emory’s Infectious Disease Unit, added that Writebol requested her discharge not be publicly announced at the time.
As she walked out of her isolation room, Writebol said, “To God be the glory,” Brantly said at the news conference.
“We are tremendously pleased with Dr. Brantly and Mrs. Writebol’s recovery,” Ribner said.
“What we learned in caring for them will help advance the world’s understanding of how to treat Ebola infections and help, hopefully, to improve survival” in other parts of the world, Ribner said at the news conference.
“There may be some recovery time because this is a fairly devastating disease,” but in general, patients without organ damage are expected to “make a complete recovery,” he said.
Culled from:tribune
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