The
Texas-trained doctor says he is "terrified" of the disease progressing
further, according to Dr. David Mcray, the director of maternal-child
health at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, where Brantly
completed a four-year residency.
"I'm
praying fervently that God will help me survive this disease," Brantly
said in an email Monday to Mcray. He also asked that prayers be extended
for Nancy Writebol, an American co-worker who also has fallen ill.
Brantly
"went into Ebola exhausted" from treating Ebola patients, Mcray said
after speaking with him Monday. His prognosis is grave and efforts to
evacuate him to Europe for treatment have been thwarted because of
concerns expressed by countries he would have to fly over en route to
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