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October 15, 2014
Ebola in the USA
1. Late July Dr. Kent Brantly, 33 , received a unit of blood from a 14-year-old
boy who had survived Ebola because of Dr. Brantly's care in Liberia.
July 31 Dr. Kent Brantly gets the first dose of an experimental drug called ZMapp,
though it was unnamed at the time. Although doctors initially thought there was
only enough for one person, Writebol was administered the drug as well.
The experimental drug, known as ZMapp, was developed by the biotech firm Mapp
Biopharmaceutical Inc., which is based in San Diego. The patients were told that
the treatment had never been tried before in a human being but had shown promise
in small experiments with monkeys.
Aug. 2, 2014 - Dr. Kent Brantly, 33 ,is flown from Liberia to Emory University
Hospital in Atlanta for treatment.
Aug. 21, 2014 - Brantly discharged from Emory in news conference in which he hugs
several members of the hospital staff.
2. Aug. 5, 2014 - Missionary Nancy Writebol, 59, flown from Liberia to Emory
University Hospital in Atlanta for treatment after being given an experimental drug
(ZMapp) to fight the virus in Liberia. ZMapp is an experimental serum designed from
the antibodies of people who had survived Ebola,
Aug. 19, 2014 - Writebol quietly discharged from hospital after she tests negative
for Ebola.
3. Sep 3, Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, of Worcester and member of the SIMS Clinic
Organization is the third American doctor infected with Ebola.
Sep 5, Dr. Rick Sacra lands in the U.S. He is treated in Nebraska.
Sacra, 51, got two transfusions of blood serum from Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly,
who flew to Nebraska to donate his blood. He's also getting an experimental drug
his doctors won't say what.
Sep 25, Dr. Rick Sacra, was released from the Nebraska Medical Center.
4. Sep 9, The third patient being treated for Ebola at Emory University Hospital
The patient arrived at Emory on Sep 9. (1=Dr. Kent Brantly,2=Nancy Writebol,3=? )
The patient has elected to remain anonymous, and is only being identified
as a doctor who was working with the World Health Organization in Seirra Leone.
Patient arrived at Emory on Sept. 9 and has been hospitalized in an isolation
unit set up to treat patients with infectious diseases.
He said Wednesday that he is recovering from the disease and is expecting to be
discharged very soon. They have never said if this patient received ZMapp.
5. Sep 20, Thomas Eric Duncan, lands in Dallas from Libera.
Oct 8, Thomas Eric Duncan is the first person to die of Ebola on U.S. soil,
6. Oct 2, 2014 - A freelance American cameraman, Ashoka Mukpo, 33, diagnosed with
Ebola in Liberia.
Oct 8, 2014 receives blood transfusion from survivor Dr Kent Brantly.
7. Oct 12, 2014 - Announced that a nurse had been infected in Dallas that was working
with Duncan.
Nina Pham is later identified as the first person to contract ebola on US soil.
Oct 13, 2014 receives blood transfusion from survivor Dr Kent Brantly.
Oct 17 2014 - Nina Pham flies from Dallas to Maryland's National Institutes of Health's state-of-the-art facility in Bethesda, Md.
8. Oct 15, 2014 - Amber Vinson, Dallas nurse, becomes the 2nd person to contract
ebola on US soil.
Oct 10, 2014 - Amber Vinson flies from Dallas-to-Cleveland on Friday.
Oct 14, 2014 - Amber Vinson flies from Cleveland-to-Dallas on Tuesday.
Oct 15, 2014 - Amber Vinson was flown from Dallas to Atlanta's Emory University Hospital, where she is "feeling OK."
Workers at that hospital -- which previously treated Americans Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol for Ebola -- are also caring for an unnamed person with Ebola who came there September 9.
Posted by Rob Kiser on October 15, 2014 at 7:58 PM
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