The Marietta Daily Journal – Isakson Treating Ebola patients may help to find vaccine

ATLANTA — U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson believes allowing the two American aid workers infected with Ebola to return from Liberia and receive treatment at Emory University Hospital was the right decision.

Nancy Writebol, 59, arrived from Monrovia, Liberia, on a chartered jet Tuesday at Dobbins Air Reserve Base before being taken by ambulance to Emory. Her colleague, Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, also diagnosed with the virus, arrived at Emory three days earlier.

Isakson said he keeps in contact with Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, as well as the nearby Emory Hospital, and was aware of the request made to have the two aid workers treated.

“I think they made absolutely the right decision,” Isakson said. “I mean, these are two American citizens infected with a deadly disease, and we have a facility at Emory and the CDC capable of dealing with it safely. It may actually lead us to the breakthrough of where we find a vaccine or a treatment that will cure it.”

via The Marietta Daily Journal – Isakson Treating Ebola patients may help to find vaccine.