Ebola Survivor Kent Brantly Reveals Near-Death Ordeal

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
2 September 2014
Tags:
West Africa, United States, Canada and Africa, Aid and Assistance, Health and Medicine

American Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly told NBC News that he felt like he was about to die while isolated in a hospital in Liberia. Doctors never told Brantly they feared for his life, but he had trouble breathing and his body was shaking with violent shivers. He told Matt Lauer "I said to the nurse who was taking care of me, 'I'm sick. And I don't know how long I can keep this up.

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