No concerns here: Ebola patients headed to Georgia
Posted by Bruce Carroll Friday, August 1, 2014 at 4:15pm
Is it a wise decision to bring the virus across the globe?
Two Americans who are infected with the Ebola virus in Africa are being flown back to the United States for treatment.
"A private jet equipped with a quarantine pod left Cartersville, Ga., Thursday afternoon headed for Liberia to evacuate Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, CNN reported. Brantly and Writebol, both Americans working for the faith-base charity Samaritan’s Purse, are said to be in stable but grave condition.
The two volunteers came down with the deadly virus while caring for patients with Ebola at a hospital in Monrovia, Liberia.
Emory University Hospital in Atlanta revealed Thursday that it expects to receive one of the patients within the next several days.
Meanwhile, fears about the disease are growing as world leaders and international health organizations struggle to try to stop the deadly outbreak in West Africa.
"The Ebola outbreak “is moving faster than our efforts to control it,” Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, said in a statement Friday.