America holds its breath as America’s first Ebola virus patient returns home (Photos)

The deadly Ebola virus landed on US soil for the first time on Saturday when an American doctor infected by the disease returned home on a private jet before being whisked to a state-of-the-art hospital isolation unit.

Dr. Kent Brantly

On board was stricken doctor Kent Brantly, one of two American aid workers infected with Ebola as they helped to battle an Ebola outbreak that has claimed more than 700 lives in West Africa since March.

Dramatic television images showed a Gulfstream jet transporting stricken doctor Kent Brantly in a collapsible isolation chamber from Africa arriving at Dobbins Air Reserve Base outside Atlanta just before 11:50 am (1550 GMT).

Footage of the arrival filmed from long-distance showed the jet pulling up at an aircraft hangar where it was met by an ambulance and several vehicles.

Local television networks then followed the convoy live as it wound its way across Atlanta to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
Father: Dr Brantly, pictured with his family, ensured Writebol received the experimental drug instead of him after a small amount arrived in Liberia, the Samaritan's Purse charity said on Wednesday
 Dr Brantly with his family

 

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2 Responses to “America holds its breath as America’s first Ebola virus patient returns home (Photos)”

  1. Unknown's avatar

    End time signs!

  2. Unknown's avatar

    Hmmm, every country is getting its share, May God help us

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