As the Ebola virus continued to consume my patients, I witnessed the horror this disease visits upon its victims, the intense pain and humiliation of those who suffer with it. Kent Brantly Read Quote
My 4-year-old son prays every night for his best friend who is the same age – our next door neighbor in Liberia, a little Liberian boy: ‘Dear God, please don’t let him get Ebola.’ I’m proud of him for thinking about his friend and praying for him but that’s not a prayer that a 4-year-old should have to consider. Kent Brantly Read Quote
There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering of others, who are motivated to go to West Africa despite the risks of infection and death. And doctors and nurses face those risks every day regardless of their setting. Kent Brantly Read Quote
Through the care of the Samaritan’s Purse and SIM missionary team in Liberia, the use of an experimental drug, and the expertise and resources of the health care team at Emory University Hospital, God saved my life – a direct answer to thousands and thousands of prayers. Kent Brantly Read Quote
Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa. Kent Brantly Read Quote
I know that some consider it controversial for me to claim that God saved my life when I had received an experimental drug and some of the greatest medical care available in the world. I can see how these two realities appear to contradict each other. Kent Brantly Read Quote
The nature of Ebola is that health-care workers are predominantly affected because of the way that it is spread. Kent Brantly Read Quote
Even when I was facing death, I remained full of faith. I did not want to be faithful to God all the way up to serving in Liberia for ten months, only to give up at the end because I was sick. Kent Brantly Read Quote
On Octover 16th, 2013, I moved to Liberia with my family to serve as a medical missionary at ELWA Hospital in the capital city of Morovia. Kent Brantly Read Quote
