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‘Miraculous day’ as American Ebola patients released

August 21, 2014LaymanBruce Ribner, Ebola, Emory University Hospital, Kent Brantly, Nancy Writebol

By Ben Brumfield and Jacque Wilson (CNN) — Both Americans who were treated for the Ebola virus have been discharged from the hospital. “Today is a miraculous day,” Dr. Kent Brantly said at a news conference in Atlanta with staff of Emory University Hospital. “I am thrilled to be alive, to be well and to…

Ready to heal

August 9, 2014LaymanBruce Ribner, Ebola, Emory University Hospital, Jesus, Paul, sin

By Mark A. Taylor Nobody forced Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital last week to accept two patients stricken with the deadly Ebola virus. Instead, Dr. Bruce Ribner, head of the Emory unit treating the sick Americans, welcomed the chance to admit them. Emory, according to Ribner, is one of only four U.S. facilities uniquely equipped to…