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Crozier was born in 1970 or 1971 [2] in the Rhodesian city of Fort Victoria. [3] His family moved to the United States when he was ten years old. [3] He attended Vanderbilt University, earning his M.D. in 1997, [4] and also completed his training in internal medicine and infectious disease at Vanderbilt.
A road named after Ameyo Adadevoh. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (27 October 1956 – 19 August 2014) was a Nigerian physician.. She is credited with having curbed a wider spread of the Western African Ebola virus epidemic in Nigeria by placing the patient zero, Patrick Sawyer, in quarantine despite pressure from the Liberian government.
Sheik Umar Khan (6 March 1975 – 29 July 2014) was the chief Sierra Leonean doctor attempting to curb the country's Ebola outbreak in 2014. [3] The virologist is credited with treating over a hundred patients before succumbing to the virus himself. He was recognized as a "national hero" by Sierra Leone's Health Ministry. [4]
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Kent Brantly is an American doctor with the medical mission group Samaritan's Purse. While treating Ebola patients in Liberia , he contracted the virus. He became the first American to return to the United States to be treated for the disease.
There is no proven cure for the virus. It kills an estimated 60 percent to 80 percent of the people it infects, but American doctors in Africa say the mortality rate would be much lower in a ...
The prognosis after recovery from Ebola virus disease can include joint pains, muscular pain, skin peeling, or hair loss. [11] [12] [13] In a media interview in September 2015, Cafferkey said "I’ve had trouble with my thyroid, lost some of my hair and get really sore joints but I guess side effects are to be expected."