After being discharged from the hospital, Brantly
came out and thanked supporters for their prayers.
He and a fellow aid worker was taken to the US for treatment
three weeks ago from Liberia where they contracted the
disease,according to BBC.
He said: “Today is a miraculous day, 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.
“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.”
He revealed that after his family returned to the US, he stayed
back to help treat the Ebola patients and then one day he
woke up feeling “under the weather”.
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.
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.
“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.
“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.
“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.”
Dr Kent Brantly was infected with the Ebola virus, but due to
his government’s intervention was taken home and then
treated with the new and experimental drug Zmapp.
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