Zmapp didn’t cure me, God did! Dr. Brantly, American Ebola survivor

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Brantly" class="attachment-thumbnail-single-image wp-post-image" height="409" src="http://ynaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Brantly.jpg" width="615" /></span></div> <div class="entry"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><br /></i>Kent Brantly, the American doctor who got infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia has declared that his healing is because of God, and not experimental drug, Zmapp.<br />The doctor had been hospitalised at Emory University Hospital, United States of America, since contracting Ebola in Liberia almost a month ago.<br />Speaking earlier from his room in the isolation ward, Dr. Brantly said God saved his life. “God saved my life”. “Above all, I am forever thankful to God for sparing my life,” he said.<br />After his discharge, he echoed the God-factor via a video posted online on Friday, 22 August, where he was effusive in his praises to Him for sparing his life.<br />He said, “Today is a miraculous day. I am thrilled to be alive, to be well and to be reunited with my family. As I lay in bed in Liberia for the following nine days, getting sicker and weaker each day, I prayed that God<br /><a href="" name="more"></a>would help me be faithful, even in my illness.”<br />He also thanked the millions of people around the would who prayed for him while he was being treated.<br />“And I prayed that in my life or in my death that he would be glorified. I did not know then, but have learned since, that there were thousands, maybe even millions of people around the world praying for me throughout that week and even till today. I cannot thank you enough for your prayers and your support, but what I can tell you is that I serve a faithful God who answers prayers.”<br />According to the World Health Organisation, over 1,300 people have been killed by the virus in West Africa, and more than 2,473 people have contracted the disease.</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>

Zmapp didn’t cure me, God did! Dr. Brantly, American Ebola survivor

Kent Brantly, the American doctor who got infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia has declared that his healing is becau...

Read more »

I serve a God who answers prayers – Brantly, Ebola survivor

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div align="center" style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One of the United States aid workers who recovered from an Ebola infection, Dr. Kent Brantly, has said he was “thrilled to be alive” as he and another patient were discharged from the hospital.</span></div> <div align="center"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;"> </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">In his first public speech since leaving the hospital on Thursday for treatment of the deadly virus, Brantly, 33, thanked supporters for their prayers. His colleague, Nancy Writebol, 59, has also been discharged from the hospital.</span></div> </div> <div align="center"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;"> </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">The two were taken to the US for treatment three weeks ago from Liberia where they contracted the disease, the BBC reported.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="" aria="false" height="423" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/9299_10154494856715006_870697541723976133_n.jpg" style="height: 423px; text-align: left; width: 306px;" width="306" /></span></div> </div> <div align="center"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;"> </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">The outbreak has killed more than 1,300 people in West Africa, with many of the deaths occurring in Liberia.</span></div> </div> <div align="center"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;"> </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">“Today is a miraculous day,” said Brantly, while addressing reporters at Emory University hospital.</span></div> </div> <div align="center"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;"> </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">“I am thrilled to be alive, to be well, and to be reunited with my family. As a medical missionary, I never imagined myself in this position.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;"> </span></div> </div> <div align="center" style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“When my family and I moved to Liberia two years ago, Ebola was not on the radar. We moved to Liberia because God called us to service in Liberia.”</span></div> <div align="center" style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> <div align="center"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">But after his family returned to the US as the Ebola outbreak tore through West Africa, he stayed back and continued to treat Ebola patients. He said he woke up on July 23, 2014 feeling “under the weather”.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;"> </span></div> </div> <div align="center"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">Brantly said he lay in bed for nine days, getting progressively sicker and weaker. On August 1, he was flown to Atlanta for treatment at Emory.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;"> </span></div> </div> <div align="center" style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said, “I cannot thank you enough for your prayers and your support, but what I can tell you is that I serve a God who answers prayers.</span></div> <div align="center"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;"> </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">“God saved my life, a direct answer to thousands and thousands of prayers…Thank you to the Liberia community, Emory hospital and so many of you, my family, friends and church family.</span></div> </div> <div align="center"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;"> </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">“My family and I will now be going away for a period of time to reconnect, decompress and to continue to recover physically and emotionally. After I have recovered a little more and regained some of my strength, we will look forward to sharing more of our story.</span></div> </div> <div align="center"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;"> </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">“Above all, I am forever grateful to God for sparing my life and I’m glad for any attention my sickness has attracted to the plight of West Africa in the midst of this epidemic. Please continue to pray for Liberia and the people of West Africa and encourage physicians of leadership and influence to do everything possible to bring this Ebola outbreak to an end.”</span></div> </div> <div align="center" style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> <div align="center" style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> <div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"> <div id="enhancrCard_0" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; width: 450px;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: inherit; height: 170px; line-height: 1.22em; width: 450px;"><tbody style="line-height: 1.22em;"> <tr><td colspan="8" style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 1px;"><div style="height: 1px;"> <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;"> </span></span></div> </td></tr> <tr><td rowspan="5" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 1px;"><div style="width: 1px;"> <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;"> </span></span></div> </td><td rowspan="5" style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 168px; vertical-align: middle; width: 168px;"><div align="center" style="width: 168px;"> <a href="http://www.punchng.com/news/i-serve-a-god-who-answers-prayers-brantly-ebola-survivor/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><img alt="image" height="168" src="http://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/kent-bradley.jpg" style="margin: auto;" width="122" /></span></a></div> </td><td rowspan="5" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 1px;"><div style="width: 1px;"> <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;"> </span></span></div> </td><td rowspan="5" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 14px;"><div style="width: 14px;"> <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;"> </span></span></div> </td><td colspan="2" style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 6px;"><div style="height: 6px;"> <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;"> </span></span></div> </td><td rowspan="5" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 20px;"><div style="width: 20px;"> <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;"> </span></span></div> </td><td rowspan="5" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 1px;" width="1"><div style="width: 1px;"> <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;"> </span></span></div> </td></tr> <tr style="line-height: 1.22em;"><td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; width: 245px;"><div style="height: 135px; width: 245px;"> <div> <a href="http://www.punchng.com/news/i-serve-a-god-who-answers-prayers-brantly-ebola-survivor/"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; max-height: 43px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small;">I serve a God who answers prayers Brantly</span></span></a></div> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> </div>

I serve a God who answers prayers – Brantly, Ebola survivor

One of the United States aid workers who recovered from an Ebola infection, Dr. Kent Brantly, has said he was “thrilled to be alive” as he...

Read more »

Ebola survivor shunned by boyfriend, even school

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="cover-wrap " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: center; width: 718px;"> <div class=""> <div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"> <figure class=" cover get-lbdata-from-dom go-to-slideshow-lightbox " data-id="e57c9a26-de53-3875-857b-bdd3df245bb7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div> <a data-rapid_p="6" data-ylk="rspns:xpnd;t1:a3;t2:ct-mod;t3:ld;sec:ct-mod;slk:expand;elm:img;elmt:ct;itc:1;grpt:;edtr_vos:;g:;aid:e57c9a26-de53-3875-857b-bdd3df245bb7;ct:4;cpos:1;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-survivor-shunned-boyfriend-even-school-171433631.html#" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, Sulaiman Kemokai a Ebola virus survivor near his house in the Heigbema Village in Kenema situated in the Eastern Province around 300km, (186 miles), from the capital city of Freetown in Kenema, Sierra Leone. In Sierra Leone, Sulaiman Kemokai, 20, was released from an Ebola treatment center on Sunday after spending 25 days in a ward there. He still feels stiffness in his joints but says he is gaining strength each day. (AP Photo/ Michael Duff)" class="inview" height="379px" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/H1s7cRu3p9q3V_yPY0Hu.w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTM3OTtweG9mZj01MDtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz02NzQ-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/ca592bd28e8c981f5c0f6a7067004ba4.jpg" style="-webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; text-align: left; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important; width: 718px;" width="674px" /></span></a></div> <span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-small" style="background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 7px; border-bottom-right-radius: 7px; border-top-left-radius: 7px; border-top-right-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 45px; left: 50%; margin-left: -32px; margin-top: -23px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; top: 50%; width: 64px; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></span></figure><ul class="thumbstrip-overlay clearfix " style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.16s linear; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 10px; position: absolute; transition: background-color 0.16s linear; zoom: 1;"> <li class="go-to-slideshow-lightbox get-lbdata-from-dom image" data-uuid="e48f7980-f3c2-33ea-ac53-115f22b1bbba" style="border: 1px solid rgb(58, 58, 58); cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style: none; margin-right: 10px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 100px;"><div class="img-wrap-16x9" style="height: 0px; padding-bottom: 56px; position: relative;"> <a data-rapid_p="7" data-ylk="rspns:xpnd;t1:a3;t2:ct-mod;t3:ld;sec:ct-mod;slk:expand;elm:tl;elmt:ct;itc:1;g:259263ad-bfe3-38bd-83af-490ad2955473;aid:e48f7980-f3c2-33ea-ac53-115f22b1bbba;ct:4;cpos:1;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-survivor-shunned-boyfriend-even-school-171433631.html#" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img class="inview" data-src-2x="" height="83.25" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/1uSKlkkeupYqSdHeR1Nezg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTgzLjI1O3B5b2ZmPTA7cT03NTt3PTE0OA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/c88379038e8b981f5c0f6a706700c7b7.jpg" style="-webkit-transform: translateZ(0px); -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; text-align: left; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important; width: 100px;" width="148" /></span></a></div> <span class="icon-white-slideshow-tiny icon-slideshow" style="background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; bottom: 3px; cursor: pointer; height: 14px; left: 3px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; width: 20px; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></span></li> <li class="go-to-slideshow-lightbox get-lbdata-from-dom image" data-uuid="f26d7f70-9f4b-32dd-a71f-723e67db8a54" style="border: 1px solid rgb(58, 58, 58); cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style: none; margin-right: 10px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 100px;"><div class="img-wrap-16x9" style="height: 0px; padding-bottom: 56px; position: relative;"> <a data-rapid_p="8" data-ylk="rspns:xpnd;t1:a3;t2:ct-mod;t3:ld;sec:ct-mod;slk:expand;elm:tl;elmt:ct;itc:1;g:259263ad-bfe3-38bd-83af-490ad2955473;aid:f26d7f70-9f4b-32dd-a71f-723e67db8a54;ct:4;cpos:1;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-survivor-shunned-boyfriend-even-school-171433631.html#" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img class="inview" data-src-2x="" height="83.25" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/T0zqgbTCcKFPq8j.DdTUKw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTgzLjI1O3B5b2ZmPTA7cT03NTt3PTE0OA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/32b6709f8e67981f5c0f6a706700722b.jpg" style="-webkit-transform: translateZ(0px); -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; text-align: left; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important; width: 100px;" width="148" /></span></a></div> <span class="icon-white-slideshow-tiny icon-slideshow" style="background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; bottom: 3px; cursor: pointer; height: 14px; left: 3px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; width: 20px; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="body yom-art-content clearfix" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" style="margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 10px; zoom: 1;"> <div class="yom-ad yom-ad-LREC" id="yom-ad-LREC" style="border: none; clear: both; float: right; height: 250px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-height: 250px; text-align: center; visibility: inherit; width: 300px;"> <div class="darla" id="sb_rel_yom-ad-LREC-iframe" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: inline-block; height: 250px; position: relative; visibility: inherit; width: 300px; z-index: 9;"> <iframe allowtransparency="true" async="" frameborder="no" hidefocus="true" id="yom-ad-LREC-iframe" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://l.yimg.com/rq/darla/2-8-1/html/r-sf.html" style="display: block; height: 250px; left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; max-height: none; max-width: none; min-height: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left; top: 0px; visibility: inherit; width: 300px; z-index: 10;" tabindex="-1"></iframe></div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — The medical school professors no longer want Kadiatou Fanta in the classroom. Her boyfriend has broken up with her. Each day the 26-year-old eats alone and sleeps alone. Even her own family members are afraid to touch her months after she survived Ebola.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Long gone are the days when she was vomiting blood and wracked by fever. And even with a certificate of health declaring her as having recovered, she says it's still as though "Ebola survivor" is burned on her flesh.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Ebola has ruined my life even though I am cured," she says. "No one wants to spend a minute in my company for fear of being contaminated."</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Ebola virus is only transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids of the sick, such as blood, saliva, urine, sweat or semen. When the first cases emerged in Guinea back in March, no one had ever confronted such a virulent and gruesome disease in this corner of Africa.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The current outbreak now has killed more than 1,000 people, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization. The fatality rate in previous Ebola outbreaks has been up to 90 percent, though health officials say this time up to half of victims are surviving.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While there is no specific treatment for Ebola, patients can be given supportive care such as intravenous fluids to keep them hydrated. If they can live long enough to develop antibodies to the virus they can survive, though they could still contract other strains of Ebola in the future, medical experts say.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Health workers hope that seeing living proof that people can survive Ebola will encourage fearful communities to get medical care instead of hiding the sick at home where they can infect relatives.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Sierra Leone, Sulaiman Kemokai, 20, was released from an Ebola treatment center on Sunday after spending 25 days there. He still feels stiffness in his joints but says he is gaining strength each day.</span></div> <div class="body-related" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 7.5px; margin-left: 7.5px; position: relative;"> <a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-pos="1" data-rapid_p="9" data-uuid="e48f7980-f3c2-33ea-ac53-115f22b1bbba" data-ylk="t1:a3;t2:ct-mod;t3:embd;sec:ct-mod;slk:expand;elm:img;elmt:ct;itc:1;g:259263ad-bfe3-38bd-83af-490ad2955473;aid:e48f7980-f3c2-33ea-ac53-115f22b1bbba;ct:4;cpos:1;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/photo-taken-monday-aug-11-2014-sulaiman-kemokai-photo-164529476.html" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, Sulaiman&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"> <span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: 0px; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span><img alt="In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, Sulaiman&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb inview" data-src-2x="" height="200" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/g7A.670HPGn82RD1hjAR5g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIwMDtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/c88379038e8b981f5c0f6a706700c7b7.jpg" style="-webkit-transform: translateZ(0px); -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div> </a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, Sulaiman Kemokai a Ebola virus survivor stretches in fron …</span></div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"When I became sick, I was scared to go to hospital, I hid from my family, from health workers. After four days I couldn't hide anymore, I was too sick. An Ebola ambulance collected me and took me to the hospital," he recalls.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But some within his community are reluctant to have any physical contact with Kemokai. Those released from treatment centers are no longer contagious, though Ebola can still be present in men's semen for up to seven weeks.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kemokai will have more family support than most: His older brother and sister also have survived Ebola, while the disease took their mother's life.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fanta, the Guinean medical student, says she was working as an intern at a clinic in Conakry, the capital, when a patient came in from the provinces sick with what doctors initially thought was malaria. She took the man's vital signs — but as is common in Guinea — she had no protective gloves or face mask.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About two weeks later, in mid-March, she started having diarrhea and soon was vomiting blood. She says her lasting troubles began when doctors declared her cured and discharged her from the isolation ward at the hospital in early April.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Although she no longer had the virus in her bloodstream, she still was visibly unwell after nearly three weeks in the hospital. Word of her sickness and return spread quickly in the poor suburb of Tanene where she was staying with extended family.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The boyfriend she used to see every day disappeared when he heard she had Ebola. Now he won't take her calls, even months later.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She tried to re-enroll with her medical school courses at Gamal Abdel Nasser University. In a sign of just how entrenched misconceptions are of Ebola, though, even the instructors did not want her in the classrooms, even though she handed them her certificate of health.</span></div> <div class="body-related" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 7.5px; margin-left: 7.5px; position: relative;"> <a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-pos="2" data-rapid_p="10" data-uuid="f26d7f70-9f4b-32dd-a71f-723e67db8a54" data-ylk="t1:a3;t2:ct-mod;t3:embd;sec:ct-mod;slk:expand;elm:img;elmt:ct;itc:1;g:259263ad-bfe3-38bd-83af-490ad2955473;aid:f26d7f70-9f4b-32dd-a71f-723e67db8a54;ct:4;cpos:2;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/healthcare-worker-walks-near-ebola-isolation-unit-wearing-photo-160549175.html" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="A healthcare worker walks near a Ebola isolation&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"> <span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: 0px; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span><img alt="A healthcare worker walks near a Ebola isolation&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb inview" data-src-2x="" height="200" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/5L5x4xs0zduXFbY9vAiP4A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIwMDtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/32b6709f8e67981f5c0f6a706700722b.jpg" style="-webkit-transform: translateZ(0px); -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div> </a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A healthcare worker walks near a Ebola isolation unit wearing protective gear against the virus at K …</span></div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I still haven't taken my exams while my classmates have moved on to the next level," she laments. "The professors said they were going to grade me by telephone."</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now she's living off what money her parents can scrape together to send her from their village, and still dreaming of when she can resume her courses.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I want to take care of patients," she says. "The reason I am alive today and speaking to you now is because doctors saved me."</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">___</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Larson reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press writer Michael Duff in Kenema, Sierra Leone also contributed to this report.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div>

Ebola survivor shunned by boyfriend, even school

. . . CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — The medical school professors no longer want Kadiatou Fanta in the classroom. Her boyfri...

Read more »