WASHINGTON (AFP) – The American woman who was
sickened with the dangerous Ebola virus while working with
a Christian aid group in Liberia is getting better and is even
smiling, her son said Tuesday.
Nancy Writebol, 60, was evacuated from Monrovia last week
and was wheeled on a stretcher into a special isolation unit
at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
“When she came in on Tuesday last week, we were really
concerned that she wasn’t going to make it,” Jeremy
Writebol said on NBC’s Today Show.
“To see her wheeled out of the ambulance and in, I was on
the floor sobbing.”
Writebol and American doctor Kent Brantly are among the
more than 1,700 people who have been sickened by the
latest Ebola virus outbreak, which has killed more than 1,00
people in West Africa since March.
They both received doses of an experimental drug for Ebola.
Brantly, 33, was seen stepping out of the ambulance and
walking on his own.
Writebol was in poorer condition than Brantly on arrival, but
has since improved. Her son said he is able to visit her
twice a day.
Due to concerns about contagion, he can only look at her
through a hospital window, as doctors and nurses treating
her don protective gear from head to toe.
“We’ve seen her get physically better, her eyes brighten up,
smiling, even joking a little bit,” he said, adding that doctors
have told him they are cautiously optimistic about her
recovery.
Writebol’s husband, David, returned to the United States
from Liberia on Monday. He remains in isolation, checking
his own temperature multiple times a day for signs of fever.
Ebola symptoms can emerge two to 21 days after exposure
to the virus, causing fever, muscle aches, vomiting,
diarrhea, and sometimes internal and external bleeding.
A total of 1,013 people have died and 1,848 people have
been infected since March, according to the World Health
Organization’s latest tally on August 11.
Nearly 55 percent of victims have died in the outbreak,
which has spread to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and
Nigeria.
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Bera thank God u r nt frm Nigeria. Na there u 4 c drop nd run.