This is suffering....The second America Ebola victim Nancy Writebol, 59, arrived Atlanta on Tuesday and was strapped into the stretcher as she was wheeled into Emory University Hospital wrapped from head to toe.
She is reportedly in a stable condition after receiving a second-dose of an experimental drug to fight the deadly disease. Mrs Writebol will be treated along with fellow missionary Dr Kent Brantly, 33, in a special quarantine wing at the hospital. Both medics who wheeled Mrs Writebol's stretcher into the hospital were wearing protective suits along with the ambulance driver.
American medical teams were taking no chances with the disease which has no known cure and is fatal in 90 per cent of patients.he two Americans infected with Ebola are receiving an experimental drug so novel that it has never been tested for safety in humans.
The experimental treatment is made by Mapp Biopharmaceutical of San Diego, with funding from the government. The treatment is aimed at boosting the immune system’s efforts to fight off the virus. It is made from antibodies produced by lab animals exposed to parts of the Ebola virus.
It’s unclear whether the experimental treatment played in recent improvement in the aid workers’ medical conditions. Ebola has no vaccine or antidote.
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| The second U.S. Ebola victim Nancy Writebol was stretchered out of an ambulance today at Emory University Hospital to join her colleague Dr Brantly in a special wing |
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| Ebola patient Nancy Writebol, a missionary from North Carolina, arrived in Atlanta today to be treated at Emory University Hospital alongside Dr Kent Brantly |
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| Dr Brantly, seen here with his wife Amber, is improving at Emory University Hospital after receiving a dose of an experimental serum |
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